EU politics
Vila Web – Spain: Catalan President accused of criminal disobedience for not removing yellow ribbons
Just when you think the Spanish Social Democrats have run out of ideas to repress democracy, they prove us wrong. Read here
EU politics
Economics
Katie Kedward – Why It’s Time to Abandon the Myth of Central Bank Independence
Monetary policy should serve the interests of people and planet, not free market ideology. Katie Kedward is a Postgraduate student in Ecological Economics Cross-posted from Open Democracy On 23 October 2008, the former Federal Reserve […]
EU politics
Richard Murphy – Surely we have a better story to tell
A thoughtful piece by Richard Murphy on where we have to go and maybe how we could get there. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns […]
Austerity
The Full Brexit Network – Left Brexit Tour
Featuring Larry Elliott (Guardian), Grace Blakeley, Costas Lapavistsas, Feyzi Ismail, Eddie Dempsey. If you wish to understand what are the weaknesses of the European Union, here you have many of the reasons.
EU politics
Spiked: Wolfgang Streeck – ‘The EU is an empire’
Wolfgang Streeck on why the EU is a deplorable institution that we must leave. Read here
EU politics
Chris Bambery – Who needs justice when one has the Spanish Supreme Court?
Week 7 of the trial of leaders of the Catalan independence movement in Spain. Chris Bambery is author and broadcaster. Co-author (with George Kerevan) of Catalonia Reborn: How Catalonia Took on the Corrupt Spanish State […]
Corruption
Reuters – Romania files charges against former chief anti-corruption prosecutor
Another annoyance for the EU, but as long as the corrupt Romanian political class maintains the four freedoms guaranteeing a neo-liberal diktat, it will remain just that: an annoyance. By the way, the party leading […]
EU politics
Grace Blakeley – The European project has far bigger problems than Brexit
EU leaders have entirely failed to solve any of the structural problems that led to the Eurozone crisis. Read here
Corruption
Politico: Family affair rocks Portuguese government
It is the same old story. While Keynesian economists and leftists are hailing the success of a centre-left coalition in Portugal purportedly defying austerity, in reality it is the same old Social Democrat sleaze and […]
EU politics
The Journal .ie: UN says Ireland applies ‘preferential tax laws’ to vultures funds and it ‘cannot continue’
Are there any tax laws that the Irish government have not included to provide transnational corporations and financial institutes with obscene profits? Read here