Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: The economic and political cost of UK austerity
While George Osborne is crowing about the success of austerity, Simon Wren-lewis examines the high costs of Osborne’s failed economic policy. Read here
EU politics
Austerity
Ann Pettifor: A triumph for George Osborne’s austerity plan? Not when our social fabric is in tatters
The ex-chancellor rejoices as his target is finally hit, but austerity has taken a terrible toll Read here
EU politics
Michael Mair – Gaining Momentum, Spreading Out – An Update on the UK’s University Strike
The university strike in UK is growing in strength and public support. In his second report (read the first here) Michael Mair brings us up to date as well as analysing the importance of this […]
Economics
Riccardo Mastini – Eurozone: from neoliberalism to democracy?
The reason for the morphing of the 2008 global financial crisis into a sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone is to be searched in the neoliberal structure of the euro area. And even if today […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: Catching up in Africa
Africa has not been terribly important for Germany as it has been for the United States, France, Britain, Portugal – and now China. Germany’s sudden interest in Ghana may be part of the Trump administration’s […]
EU politics
Andrew Dowling – ‘Winter is Here’. The Growing Erosion of Civil Rights in Spain
The Catalan crisis has now taken hold of Spanish national politics. What once seemed a regional conflict has exposed cracks in Spain’s democratic facade. Andrew Dowling, Senior Lecturer in Catalan and Spanish History at Cardiff […]
EU politics
The Revival of French Left-wing Populism: Interview with Political Strategist Manuel Bompard
As we experienced in the campaigns of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders the left has to revolutionise how it organises itself, voters, and its communications to overcome corporate media. In this lengthy interview Manuel Bompard […]
Climate Crisis
Aditya Chakrabortty: The small town that started a community revolution across Europe
Not only did the little community of Wolfhagen in Germany take over its electricity grid from the multi-national E.ON, but in the meantime has gone over to renewable energy. All of this in the hands […]
EU politics
Investigate Europe: Legislation in the „Black Box“ of the EU Council – where secrecy feeds mistrust
Dutch parliamentarians recently labelled the European Council a “black box”. Through its informal bodies, such as the Eurogroup of finance ministers of the 19 eurozone countries, national parliaments become sidelined and are continually confronted with […]
Corruption
Romania-Insider.com – Romania’s Anticorruption Directorate: A third of those sent to court in 2017 held public office
Romania’s special public prosecutor for corruption is under attack – by politicians. When you read this article, you will understand why. Read here