Economics
Ashoka Mody: Why the euro failed
An ercerpt from Ashoka Mody´s outstanding book “EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Act”. Read our book review here Read here
EU politics
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: How to Create Refugees
A central theme of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s tour of African countries, which began yesterday, will be the expansion of the EU’s defense against refugees. As government circles confirmed, following Merkel’s talks yesterday in Senegal, she […]
Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Lessons from the Greek tragedy unlearnt
Inside the Eurozone the creditors have too much power, because they can threaten to cut off money to a member’s banking system or throw you out of the club. The Eurozone has not learnt this […]
Economics
Ashoka Mody – The IMF abetted the European Union’s subversion of Greek democracy
Who was accountable and who is accountable to the Greek people? European handling of the Greek crisis takes economic colonialism to a twenty-first-century high-water mark. Ashoka Mody is a visiting professor in international economic policy […]
EU politics
Adam Tooze: The bank that nearly broke Europe
The single currency’s design isn’t perfect. But what’s really hampered its first 20 years, says Adam Tooze, are decisions freely taken by power-hungry men in Frankfurt Read here
EU politics
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela – Kosovo and Serbia: A dangerous but not unprecedented Balkan land swap
Kosovo and Serbia have recently discussed an exchange of territory, with some commentators suggesting a deal on a ‘land swap’ might be imminent. Andrea Lorenzo Capussela writes that while critics have rightly decried the plan […]
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment – Carmakers have cheated European drivers to the tune of 150bn euros since 2000
The real cost of carmakers gaming fuel efficiency tests is now revealed: the additional fuel burned because of widespread industry manipulation has cost drivers an extra €149.6 billion for the past 18 years (2000-2017) [1]. […]
EU politics
CommonSpace – Rebuttal: The story the media missed on ex-chief rabbi Sacks
It appears that the “liberals” in Britain are have taken a lesson from the alt-right with regard to their media policy to counter a rising wave of progressives in the UK. Read here
Corruption
Politico – Trump lawyer Giuliani got paid to lobby Romanian president
What a read! Another EU Social Democratic party that has discoverd that the key to success is lie, lie, and lie again. Laws are for losers. Read here
Economics
Aufhebunga Bunga – Exiting Capitalist Realism
The third in our Neoliberal Breakdown series. In which we discuss the late Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, 10 years on. Does his analysis still hold? The mood music of the time – the age of ‘TINA’ […]