Economics
Bloomberg: Germany’s Economy Runs on Low Wages
The European giant can rely on an army of poorly paid workers to weather a downturn. Read here
National Politics
Corruption
Prem Sikka: The accountants’ laundromat: How Britain is still washing dirty money
British accounting regulators are scared of cracking down on laundering, writes Prem Sikka. Read here
Austerity
Jorge Amar and Scott Ferguson – Power, Corruption & Lies: A Left View of the Upcoming Spanish Election
Spain and Catalonia are heading into an election. Jorge Amar and Scott Ferguson analyse the current economic and political situation. Jorge Amar is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and the […]
Austerity
Servaas Storm – How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades
As Italy enters its third recession in a decade, its austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone. Although a bit long, it is time well invested as Storm astutely analyses the current economic and […]
Corruption
Bloomberg: KPMG, EY Reported to Police Amid Danish Laundering Probes
The big four auditing companies are caught up in almost every major financial scandal in Europe. Now in Denmark. Read here
Austerity
Emma Clancy – The eurozone’s ‘soulless market’ and its thuggish enforcers
The EU hegemon Germany has rigged the Euro to serve its interests. Germany has been the big winner, having benefited by €1.9 trillion from the euro between 1999 and 2017, or around €23,000 per person. […]
EU politics
Chris Bambery – Trial against Catalan leaders: How can this happen in an EU nation?
Week 9 of the trial of leaders of the Catalan independence movement in Spain. Is this the sort of justice in store for EU citizens as the Union enters an increasing crisis? Chris Bambery is […]
EU politics
Chris Nineham: Why the EU is not internationalist
Seeing the EU as internationalist is a fundamental error rooted in a misdiagnosis of its aims and effects, argues Chris Nineham Read here
Economics
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela – The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline
20 March 2019 in Berlin A talk in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” Italy is a rich society served by an advanced manufacturing sector, where the rule of law is weak, however, and […]
Climate Change
France 24: EU countries approve launch of US trade talks
Germany wants to avoid US tariffs on its cars – and what Germany wants in the EU, it gets. Macron is made to look ridiculous again. Maybe he ought to stick to beating up his […]