Economics
DeStatis – Germany: Decline in real earnings greater than in Great Financial Crisis
If this is a V-Recovery, it is obviously for the 1% Read here
Inequality
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – We’re losing the bunfight so we must win the battle of ideas
We’re supposed to believe in something that doesn’t exist but not believe something that does. Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think and do tank Common Weal. Cross-posted from Source Keir Starmer, the […]
Austerity
Bohumil Čáp – Just Another Transition
The European Green Deal won’t deliver justice for workers in Europe’s East — just like the economic transition 30 years ago Bohumil Čáp is International Deputy Secretary of Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions and Vice-president […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: British legislation must be able to override EU law – that is what independence means
Let us be honest, the EU perpetually breaks rules, laws, and treaties. Bill Mitchell lists many of these. Read here
Corruption
Gabor Scheiring – Why Businesses Embrace Populists and What to do About it: Lessons from Hungary
Gabor Scheiring, Bocconi University The coronavirus crisis has revealed the weaknesses of some populist leaders such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or Donald Trump in the US, yet others are emerging stronger than ever. And […]
EU politics
Niamh Ni Bhriain – The Deadly Politics of Colonial Borders during the Covid-19 Pandemic
There is a concerted effort by EU leaders to keep people seeking asylum out at all costs, & far too often they pay the ultimate price. At least six people have died each day trying […]
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – Is ‘disaster capitalism’ why no-one is taking Scotland’s economic crisis seriously?
Many of you are probably wondering why BRAVE NEW EUROPE keeps posting these articles about Scotland? Who cares about Scotland, it is not even a nation? The reason is that Scotland is a microcosm of […]
Economics
Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Penissat, and Alexis Spire
Book Review by Ben Wray Everyone interested in the politics of Europe should have this on their bookshelf. It is remarkable that it hasn’t been done before now, but Hugrée, Penissat and Spire – three […]
Corruption
Murray Scown, Kimberly Nicholas, Mark Brady – EU subsidies benefit big farms while underfunding greener and poorer plots – new research
Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock Murray Scown, Utrecht University; Kimberly Nicholas, Lund University, and Mark Brady, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP, is the European Union’s largest budget item. For the €60 billion […]
Climate Crisis
Veronica Ocvirk – EU-Mercosur Agreement will Devastate Industries and Environment in Latin America
The free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc of Latin American countries will benefit EU multinationals but pose serious disadvantages for local industries in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Veronica Ocvirk […]