Economics
Matt Kerr – Ikea’s Sick Pay Scandal
Yes, those lovely social and environmentally conscious Swedes. Read here
EU politics
EU politics
LBC News: Dozens rescued from Banksy-funded refugee boat stranded in Mediterranean
Oh well, you can be the darling of the art world as long as you are producing a marketable commodity especially useful for speculation. Unfortunately human lives cannot be sold at Sotheby’s. Read here
EU politics
Clemens Hoffmann – Turkey-Greece Conflict in Eastern Mediterranean is less about Gas than Vacuum left by Trump
Turkey’s Oruç Reis vessel has been carrying out seismic work in contested waters. EPA Clemens Hoffmann, University of Stirling The worsening stand-off in the eastern Mediterranean, frequently described as a gas conflict, has been gaining […]
Economics
Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Penissat, and Alexis Spire
Book Review by Ben Wray Everyone interested in the politics of Europe should have this on their bookshelf. It is remarkable that it hasn’t been done before now, but Hugrée, Penissat and Spire – three […]
Climate Crisis
Common Weal -The Common Home Plan
Why is it that a small think tank of the Scottish Left is able to do something that no government in the world is capable of: Planning a Green New Deal in detail? Common Weal […]
Climate Crisis
Investigate Europe: The truth behind the EU’s National Energy and Climate Plans
A litany of evasions, missed deadlines, questionable claims and ignorance…real and feigned. Some member states even openly state that they do not plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Read here
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Draft EU methane strategy shies away from binding emissions standards
More of the EU’s Green (not really) Deal. Read here
Corruption
Murray Scown, Kimberly Nicholas, Mark Brady – EU subsidies benefit big farms while underfunding greener and poorer plots – new research
Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock Murray Scown, Utrecht University; Kimberly Nicholas, Lund University, and Mark Brady, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP, is the European Union’s largest budget item. For the €60 billion […]
Climate Crisis
Veronica Ocvirk – EU-Mercosur Agreement will Devastate Industries and Environment in Latin America
The free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc of Latin American countries will benefit EU multinationals but pose serious disadvantages for local industries in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Veronica Ocvirk […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: British-EU disputes suggest the Tories are set to break away from the sordid Thatcher legacy
Some reflections on the current British-EU stand-off Read here