National Politics
Catalan News: Former Catalan president Puigdemont held in police custody in Sardinia
Head of government during 2017 independence bid detained under warrant from Spain’s Supreme Court Read here
EU politics
Climate Crisis
Florian Skelton – Switzerland’s dead-lock on climate change mitigation
Three months ago, on 12 June, the Swiss people narrowly rejected a landmark law on climate change. Heralded as the most comprehensive bill yet, it would have however still failed to meaningfully reduce Switzerland’s greenhouse […]
EU politics
Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition by Sebastiaan Faber
Book Review by Chris Bambery The removal of General Francisco Franco’s remains, in the autumn of 2019, from the hideous mausoleum he had built for himself and the founder of Spain’s fascist party, the Falange, […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau – What happens at EU’s eastern borders?
The next step to shooting people on EU borders is closer than anyone dares to think. As usual, EU liberal-democracy is nothing more than moral posturing behind which stands a brutal neo-liberalism. Not mentioned in […]
National Politics
Ken Loach – The End of Democracy in the Labour Party
A brilliant analysis of the current situation in the Labour Party in the UK, but valid for most Social Democrat parties in the EU.
Climate Crisis
Kacper Szulecki – Norway’s “Climate Election” Is a Warning for the Rest of Europe
Following last week’s general election in Norway, the centre-right government will step down, replaced by a left-wing coalition. Climate policy was an important feature of the campaign, but if this was indeed the first “climate […]
EU politics
Patrick Cockburn – When It Comes to Letting Down Allies, Trumpism and Bidenism Have Much in Common
There are some lessons to be learnt from recent US foreign policy. But how are the US “allies” to explain to their citizens that they are not partners, but vassals – and poorly treated ones […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – China: Not so Evergrande
Trying to unravel the consequences of the Evergrande crisis and Chinese debt Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog China’s Evergrande Group is the […]
Climate Crisis
eu observer: Auditors slam EU Commission on green investments
Is anyone really surprised by this article? The EU Commission is so debased by corruption (also known as lobbying) that little of use for its citizens is realised Read here
Climate Crisis
Our Fish Campaign: Report: EU Fuel Tax Subsidies Worth €1.5 billion are Driving Climate Impacts & Overfishing
The EU fishing fleet receives a tax break of between €759 million and €1.5 billion from fuel tax subsidies each year, as well as producing nearly 7.3 million tons of CO2 just from burning fuel, […]