Corruption
Politico – Trump lawyer Giuliani got paid to lobby Romanian president
What a read! Another EU Social Democratic party that has discoverd that the key to success is lie, lie, and lie again. Laws are for losers. Read here
National Politics
Economics
Aufhebunga Bunga – Exiting Capitalist Realism
The third in our Neoliberal Breakdown series. In which we discuss the late Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, 10 years on. Does his analysis still hold? The mood music of the time – the age of ‘TINA’ […]
Economics
Hilary Wainwright: The economics that came in from the cold
Tory-supporting media have been portraying Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller, while unnoticed the shadow chancellor sets out a vision that breaks with the old bureaucratic state model Read here
Economics
Geoff Tily – Turkey is business-as-usual for the globalised financial system
The Turkish debt inflation was inherently unsustainable; the only uncertainties were the timing of, and trigger(s) for, the reversal. But who will carry the burden of the consequences? Geoff Tily is a Senior Economist at […]
Austerity
Abby Innes – The dismantling of the State since the 1980s: Brexit is the wrong diagnosis of a real crisis
Abby Innes writes that the vote to leave the EU and the administrative chaos around it pull into focus the crisis we should have been talking about before: the failures of homegrown neoliberal policies and […]
Economics
SAMAK: The Nordic Model For Dummies
It is interesting that corporate media and the political elite of Europe south of Scandinavia never likes to talk about this. Read here
Economics
Yilmaz Akyüz: Crisis alla Turca
Long but interesting analysis of the current state of the Turkish economy. Read here
Deregulation
Sergio Cesaratto – Democratic sovereignty and genuine internationalism
Sergio Cesaratto looks at why national sovereignity has been so easily hijacked by the right and and needs to be taken back by the left. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and […]
Economics
Costas Lapavitsas – Lexit Re-Loaded
Costas Lapavitsas explains why Leftists and the Labour Party should not support remaining in the neo-liberal EU. We at Brave New Europe don’t take a position on Brexit. While we recognise that many dark and […]
EU politics
Jack Shenker: Centrists Won’t Save Britain
Liberals are peddling an ahistorical nostalgia. The people aren’t buying it. Read here