Corruption
Politico – No clear winner in Bulgarian election
Results plunge Balkan country into deeper uncertainty after a prior inconclusive vote in April. Read here Hristo Rusev/Getty Images
EU politics
Economics
Matthias Matthijs, R. Daniel Kelemen: The Other Side of Angela Merkel
What the world has misunderstood about the German chancellor. Read here
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – Calls for new EU Directive to protect workers from AI and algorithmic power
A webinar exploring ‘what does it means to have an algorithm as your manager?’ has heard calls for a new EU Directive specifically aimed at employment protections and rights from the increasingly pervasive role of […]
Corruption
Radosveta Vassileva – Snap Parliamentary Elections in July: Civil Society v Bulgaria’s Autocracy
We are following the developments in Bulgaria closely, which is one of the most corrupt and autocratic EU governments among many in the Eastern periphery of the EU, but strongly supported by Germany and Merkel […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – How tax can shape society if we understand modern monetary theory
How tax in the UK is used to increase inequality. This is valid throughout the EU. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. Co-founder of the […]
Climate Crisis
Recovery Watch – How fossil fuel lobbying is siphoning Covid recovery funds through hydrogen
Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. Recovery […]
EU politics
Jason Stanley – The ten pillars of fascist politics
This is from a twitter thread put together by Richard Murphy on his website Tax Research UK Jason Stanley is an American philosopher who is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. This […]
EU politics
Alice Larkin – What if we treated the climate emergency as seriously as we treated COVID–19?
Cutting energy consumption will be crucial is stopping climate change. Alice Larkin is a Professor in Climate Science and Energy Policy as part of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and Head of the […]
Climate Crisis
Reforming the controversial Energy Charter Treaty is a mission impossible: the EU and member states are wasting their time
The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) constitutes an obstacle to the clean energy transition and must be ended ECT Campaign Communications Friends of the Earth Europe Communications CAN Europe In the face of rising controversy around […]
Corruption
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – The scandal of Spain’s “Audits Court”:“If you can’t beat ‘em, dispossess ‘em”
The scandals in Spain’s justice system continue making Hungary and Poland look like paragons of democracy Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What Catalans Want Núria Bassa […]