EU politics
Paul Preston: The scars of Catalonia
This is an in-depth analysis of the current situation in Catalonia from The Spectator. Read here
EU politics
EU politics
Anna Coote – Are Universal Public Services the answer to Europe’s widening inequalities?
Economic inequalities are intolerably high across Europe. How to narrow the gap? A new study suggests that it is time to think afresh about the redistributive effects of public services. Anna Coote is Principal Fellow at […]
Economics
Paul Mason: Upward mobility has been shattered. And no one in power cares enough to fix it
Our economic system didn’t intend to suppress the social mobility of working-class kids, but it has. Now their prospects are so bleak that Labour’s promises to the postwar working class seem practically Bolshevik Read here […]
EU politics
Eurodad, European Network on Debt and Development – Corporate tax income is needed more than ever…
Eurodad has just published a 180 page report entitled Tax Games: the Race to the Bottom – Europe’s role in supporting an unjust global tax system This is a summary of the report. Eurodad is a […]
National Politics
Simon Wren-Lewis: If we treat plutocracy as democracy, democracy dies
This is probably one of the finest blogs that Simon Wren-Lewis has ever written. It is a brilliant political and media analysis. Read here
EU politics
Anthony Barnett: The Lure of Greatness
Anthony Barnett discusses his new book, The Lure of Greatness, Part 1 – LabourTube
EU politics
John Rapley – Britain’s Slow Suicide Sort of Makes Sense
John Rapley is a political economist and author of ‘Twilight of the Money Gods’, which was reviewed in BRAVE NEW EUROPE Cross-posted from John’s blog brixtonsubversity We at Brave New Europe don’t take a position on […]
EU politics
David Whyte – Catalonia: the promise of a republic built on civil disobedience
When many nations in the EU come under pressure one suddenly realises how thin the democratic veneer is. This is of little surprise, as the principal raison d’être of the EU is economic, better said […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: The EMU reform ruse
This is a very long read, but there is probably no one in the world who knows in such detail how and why the EU functions as Bill Mitchell. Part 1 Part 2
EU politics
Tamara Ehs – Austria: Dawn after the empty night of socialism?
Like so many social democratic parties in Europe the SPÖ in Austria is in crisis. Tamara Ehs asks if the party is capable of regenerating itself and what is the future of democracy in […]