Corruption
Bloomberg: KPMG, EY Reported to Police Amid Danish Laundering Probes
The big four auditing companies are caught up in almost every major financial scandal in Europe. Now in Denmark. Read here
EU politics
Austerity
Emma Clancy – The eurozone’s ‘soulless market’ and its thuggish enforcers
The EU hegemon Germany has rigged the Euro to serve its interests. Germany has been the big winner, having benefited by €1.9 trillion from the euro between 1999 and 2017, or around €23,000 per person. […]
EU politics
Chris Bambery – Trial against Catalan leaders: How can this happen in an EU nation?
Week 9 of the trial of leaders of the Catalan independence movement in Spain. Is this the sort of justice in store for EU citizens as the Union enters an increasing crisis? Chris Bambery is […]
EU politics
Chris Nineham: Why the EU is not internationalist
Seeing the EU as internationalist is a fundamental error rooted in a misdiagnosis of its aims and effects, argues Chris Nineham Read here
Economics
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela – The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline
20 March 2019 in Berlin A talk in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” Italy is a rich society served by an advanced manufacturing sector, where the rule of law is weak, however, and […]
Economics
Economics
Lars P. Syll – MMT perspectives on the euro
In her unsuccesful general election campaign of 2017 Theresa May promised “strong and stable” leadership. Look what Britain got. The same was promised with the euro. What the euro-nations got was German ideological obsession for […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Madness on both sides of the Atlantic
Europe´s future generations will pay for the German ideological obsession for rules over reality. Read here
Climate Crisis
France 24: EU countries approve launch of US trade talks
Germany wants to avoid US tariffs on its cars – and what Germany wants in the EU, it gets. Macron is made to look ridiculous again. Maybe he ought to stick to beating up his […]
Economics
Bloomberg: Italy Raises Deficit Target, Risking Fresh Conflict With The EU
Does this really surprise anyone? Read here