National Politics
Times of Malta: France eyes Paris airport, lottery sell-off
Macrons neo-liberal policy becomes clearer. And this is the man who is supposed to reform Europe and make it more responsible to its citizens? How then? Read here
National Politics
EU politics
Gary Younge: Brexit will expose the EU’s democratic deficit
Gary Younge transcends the usual Leave/Remain thrashed to death drivel and provides a thought-provoking piece concerning the EU and Brexit. Read here
Economics
German Foreign Policy – Germany: The price of being an “Export Champion”
Germans believe that Donald Trump is introducing tariffs because he is stupid and aggressive. Hardly anyone talks aboutGermany’s obscene positive balance of trade. Germany’s mercantilism is no more reactionary than Trump’s policies – and no […]
Austerity
Steve Keen – Has Europe really recovered?
I cover “the usual” in my talk itself: the empirical data that screams that credit plays an essential role in macroeconomics, the a priori reasons that mainstream economists ignore it, why this is logically wrong […]
EU politics
Herman Michiel: The European Left and Brexit
Hermann Michiel asks why the so-called leftist parties in the EU parliament are so close to the leading neo-liberals in their vision of Brexit. Read here
Austerity
Thomas Hale: The strange economics of the university strikes
The strange economics of the university strikes. It will increase short-term profits at the universities: less pay for staff, no refunds for students Read here
EU politics
Guglielmo Forges Davanzati – Italian elections: the 5 Star Movement’s policy prescriptions
Outside of Italy hardly anyone knows what the 5 Star Movement stands for. Guglielmo Forges Davanzati takes a closer look at their economic programme. Guglielmo Forges Davanzati is Professor for Political Economy at the Università […]
EU politics
Larry Elliot: A perfect economic storm made Italy ripe for a protest vote
Larry Elliot explains what conditions have lead to the whing to the right in Italy. In the end it reduces everything to one word: Eurozone. Read here
Corruption
Reuters: Diesel collapse gives automakers carbon headache
This is how absurd things can become – thanks to the EU: Diesel was supposed to reduce CO2., but the car manufacturers, to increase their profits, cheated, and produced radically more nitrogen oxide than permitted, […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Germany’s Social Democrats did the right thing: committed political suicide
Sometimes historical events occur and no one really notices. The decision of the German social democrats to once again enter a grand coalition heralds the end of a political party with a history of over […]