Austerity
New Economics Foundation – United Kingdom: Why are university lecturers on strike?
Excellent background information concerning the university strike in the UK Listen here
National Politics
Austerity
Becky Gardiner: Why I’m a striking lecturer: I want to stop the slow death of public education
Education affects all of us. We at Brave New Europe are giving so much coverage to the university strike in the United Kingdom as we see it as a possible turning point within Britain in […]
Austerity
Liverpool Echo: Liverpool Uni bosses ‘could’ve saved £113,000’ by travelling standard class
They just don’t get it. When you work for the public you are being entrusted with other people’s money: trusted to use it sparingly and wisely. The higher the salary the more this seems to […]
Austerity
Hannah Wilkinson – ‘I should be doing my PhD. Instead, I’m here. Making this sign, and defending a pension I don’t even have yet…’
These ” Thoughts on the UCU pensions strike from staff-student workers” marks the beginning of the fourth week of the University Strike in Britain. We at BRAVE NEW EUROPE see this strike as an extremely […]
EU politics
The New Pretender – An Introduction to Populism: Interview with Yannis Stavrakakis
Populism has come to mean everything that politically questions the neo-liberal status quo – be it from the left or right. Although the article appears a bit academic at the beginning, it picks up and […]
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
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