EU politics
VilaWeb: Spain misused European arrest warrant against rapper Valtònyc
EU court rules that Spain should not have used a penal code passed three years after the events he is accused of Read here
EU politics
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The EU outdoes itself in the madness stakes
The latest PopuList results are rather stark: 1. In the early 1990s, the “populist, far-right and far-left parties” accounted for around 10 per cent of the total vote. By 2020, this share had risen to […]
Austerity
David Matthews: EU leaders desert research in Brussels budget showdown
Wasn’t this one of those wonderful things that Britain due to Brexit was supposedly losing out on? Read here
EU politics
Eugene Michail, Dimitris Dalakoglou – Fortress Europe as Infrastructure
Fortress Europe is happy to keep on footing the bill, as long as Greece keeps the refugees out of sight and out of mind of northern European voters. Eugene Michail is Senior Lecturer at the […]
EU politics
Sam Woodford – University Strike in Britain: ‘We will listen to students.’
Today, 2 March, we enter the third week of the UK University Strike. Staff are not standing alone, but have been joined by many students (who the university expected, due to the high fees they […]
Climate Crisis
ICCT – The Great Reveal: A Snapshot of EU New Passenger Car Markets in January
A very informative article concerning car sales in Europe, unfortunately once again confirming that car-makers are only concerned with profit maximisation. By Peter Mock, Uwe Tietge, Sandra Wappelhorst Cross-posted from the ICCT website Starting this […]
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Puigdemont Thunders Back
After two years absence from Catalan soil, exiled ex-president Carles Puigdemont addresses a massive rally in Perpignan (French Catalonia). Saturday 29th February has witnessed the biggest ever political rally in the history of what is […]
EU politics
Antonio Lettieri – The Misadventures of Working Time in the 21st Century
Working hours were at the centre of social progress in the second half of the last century. Now deregulation has become the rule, breaking up personal and family life. Antonio Lettieri is Editor of Insight […]
EU politics
Marshall Auerback – Boris Johnson, Not Donald Trump, Is the Real Blue-Collar Conservative
It’s still early days, but after Mark Blyth’s podcast “Getting Brexit Right” (listen here), Marshall Auerback also offers a very different narrative concerning the Tory victory in the General Election and their future policy. Marshall […]
EU politics
Craig Murray – Assange Hearing Day 4
The affair around Julian Assange is of course an attack on freedom of the press, but it is much more, it is an attack on democracy and that by war criminals. Craig Murray is a […]