EU politics
German Foreign Policy: Bulgaria – An Assisted EU Council Presidency
Bulgaria an EU puppet state? The model is familiar: oligarchs running the state, mass poverty, cheap labour for Western Europe. Read here
National Politics
Corruption
Malta Today: Serbian magnate Dragan Solak outed by MaltaFiles over tax avoidance, is Malta’s newest citizen
Oligarchs buy EU citizenship. Not only are investigative journalists blown up in Malta, the government sells citizenship – but only to those with enough money. In this case a prodigious tax avoider. These are apparently […]
Austerity
Larry Elliot: Brexit: why the UK economy hasn’t led to buyer’s remorse
Are 51,9 % of Britains neo-fascist berks? Or did those who voted for Brexit have political and economics reasons for doing so? Remainers seem not to be posing this salient question: “Remain’s proponents have spent […]
Corruption
João Paulo Batalha – The Great Christmas Heist: Portugal’s political party financing caper reveals a democratic deficit
It seemed a sure thing. A vast majority of political parties in Portugal – from far left to neoliberal right – got together four days before Christmas to reward themselves by inserting lucrative loopholes in […]
Corruption
Investigate Europe: The overlooked past of the ‘next PM of Greece’
After being crushed ba the EU, the European Central Bank, and the IMF and the sellout by Syriza, Greece appears to be returning to its oligarchic legacy. That is not reform, that is reactionary politics. […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Germany and the loss of political trust
Just a year ago corporate media was hailing German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the new leader of the Western democracies. That they were grasping at such a decayed straw proves the seriousness of the political […]
Austerity
Fintan O’Toole: Has Ireland had a lost decade?
Did Ireland learn anything from its dramatic financial crash 10 years ago? Not much concludes Fintan O’Toole. Read here
Economics
Daniel Margrain: Socialism for the rich
Taxes are there to take from the poor and give to the rich. Neo-liberalism is socialism turned on its head.”This situation is not only unjust, corrupt and undemocratic, it is unsustainable.” Read here
EU politics
The Guardian: Catalan leader ordered to stay in jail as court rejects ‘political prisoner’ claims
Is this the future of democracy in the EU? The Spanish government calls for new elections in Catalonia. The pro-independence parties win. One leader is kept in prison, the other outside of Catalonia. This is […]
EU politics
The Irish Times: ‘Double Irish’ and ‘Dutch Sandwich’ saved Google $3.7bn in tax in 2016
Irish government supports tax-evading Google. The Irish government is profiting at the cost of the rest of the EU. By providing international corporations with legal tax dodges, it is depriving the rest of the EU […]