EU politics
The Guardian: EU doesn’t need the City of London, says chief Brexit negotiator
Bad news for the City of London, but negotiations are a long and tortuous process, full of surprises. Read here
National Politics
EU politics
Slugger O’Toole: The media’s inability to tear Corbyn down is no surprise to people in Ireland. Our media has been failing to tear Sinn Féin down for decades.
It is interesting to note that the media maybe never was omnipotent, but also that coporate media’s power is waning in Ireland as most everywhere else. Read here
EU politics
VoxEU: Ashoka Mody – The myth of Franco-German friendship
Since Emmanuel Macron’s election as French president in May 2017, hope has lingered that a mythical friendship between France and Germany will help complete the gaps in the euro area architecture. As this column discusses, […]
Austerity
Larry Elliot: Some praise our gig economy flexibility. I call it exploitation
While Silicon Valley cannot praise the gig economy enough as a great opportunity, they forget to add that it is a great opportunity for them to earn money, not the workers. Read here
EU politics
Sergi Cutillas and Pablo Cotarelo – Catalonia in the hands of a German tribunal
This ia a further excellent article explaining the current stand-off between Catalonia and the Spanish government. Sergi Cutillas is an economist and worked in the financial sector before taking up his work as a financial […]
National Politics
Andrea Capussela and Gianfranco Pasquino – After Italy’s vote: The case for a deal between the Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement
Italy’s election produced a fragmented result and there has been intense speculation over the potential government that could emerge from negotiations. Andrea Lorenzo Capussela and Gianfranco Pasquino argue that in a tri-polar parliament dominated by […]
Austerity
Claire Connelly: Dear Tony Blair – the right views on Brexit are wrong
A brilliant article.Claire Connelly is one of the few that realises that Brexit had less to do with the EU than with a society seeking emancipation from the devastation of neo-liberalism and all its political […]
EU politics
DutchNews.nl: Dutch prime minister faces stormy debate over dividend tax memos
EU governments seem to be running a race against time. Before tax evsion laws can be adopted, they will make sure that international coporations have no more taxes to pay. Read here
Corruption
El Pais: Madrid regional premier Cristina Cifuentes quits after video of her shoplifting emerges
This story is a metaphor for much of Europe’s political elite: A master’s degree from a university that had absolutely no basis in reality. All records have been lost. Shoplifting (she claims to have paid […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast April 2018
In this month’s Taxcast: Tax justice, women and UN human rights conventions: how we may be beginning to hold governments to account. Also: we discuss scandal-hit Facebook’s checks on whether overseas influencers are funding political […]