Climate Crisis
Riccardo Mastini, Giorgos Kallis and Jason Hickel: Europe’s Green Deal is a tepid response to the climate crisis
The EU’s new climate plan hardwires an economic model that prizes GDP growth over ecological limits. Read here
EU politics
Austerity
France24: Strike paralyses France in showdown over pension reforms
Macron continues his neo-liberal crusade. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: European Union – business as usual as the madness continues
“With another cyclical downturn approaching, the European Commission continues to conduct its affairs in a sort of time warp, divorced from reality.” Read here
Economics
Pawel Bukowski, Philip Novokmet: Poland Loses its Fairness Equilibrium
Within a single generation, Poland has gone from one of the most egalitarian countries in Europe to one of the most unequal Pawel Bukowski is a research officer at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance […]
Climate Crisis
Jillian Ambrose: Fossil fuel lobbyists push to dilute EU anti-greenwash plan
This is an exceptionally important article about a topic that is being conveniently ignored by most mainstream media. Energy industry in particularly fights back against planned new rules on green labelling Read here
Austerity
Michael Mair – Tectonic Shifts: An Update on the UK University Strike
It does not matter where you look in Europe, neo-liberalism’s inexorable crusade of destruction through financialisation and marketisation continues. The only line of defence we have left is direct action. This is once again being […]
Climate Crisis
Hauke Benner – Germany: 4,000 “Ende Gelände” Climate Activists Block Lignite Coal Mining
The German movement “Ende Gelände” has kept up pressure on the German government, which has de facto revoked its Paris Climate Pledge, to continue burning lignite and coal until 2035. Hauke Benner is a former […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory: Picking up the plastics trail: how Ireland cooperated with the plastics industry
Corporate lobbies often exert heavy pressure on member states’ decision-making in the Council of the EU, especially when it comes to making new rules and regulations. But how does the influencing work in practice? Read […]
EU politics
Catalan News: Spain adopts controversial digital decree
Measure presented by Spanish Socialists to stop Catalonia developing “digital republic” grants authorities in Madrid “exceptional” powers Read here
Austerity
Heiner Flassbeck – Germany: Political Amateurs and the Intelligentsia
We all knew that German politicians from Merkel’s Union and the Social Democrats could walk the Zombie Walk, but could they talk the Zombie Talk? Of course they can, and did, explains Heiner Flassbeck. Heiner […]