EU politics
Trust for London: London’s Poverty Profile 2017
58% of Londoners in poverty live in a working family. This is a 50% increase over the last decade. This equates to 1.3 million people. Read here
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Gerry Adams: Spain and Catalonia can find a way forward. Here’s what they must do
From The Guardian Europe is facing its biggest crisis since the Balkan wars. But no conflict is intractable, and the broad principles for resolving it are the same as they were in Ireland. Read here […]
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Corporate Europe Observatroy: Open doors for forces of finance
‘Open door for forces of finance at the ECB’ reveals that the advisory groups counselling the European Central Bank are dominated by representatives of some of the most influential global financial corporations. Read here
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Thomas Seibert – Catalonia: democracy and secession
Published on the website of DiEM 25 Thomas Seibert looks beyond the failure of Spain to find a democratic solution for Catalonia, to the failure of the European Union on this issue as well. Read […]
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Bill Mitchell: Eurozone Dystopia
Bill Mitchell’s presentation of his book “Eurozone Dystopia” in Berlin on September 27, 2017 . Scroll forward to 6:30. View here
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Michael Mair, Elizabeth Minor, Alex Holder – The Europeanisation of the Armed Drone
With the exception of Britain, European military drones is not a topic in European media or in the public debate. It should be. Dr Michael Mair is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of […]
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David Whyte – Catalonia: Time to Smash this Tyre-Slashing State and Build Something Better
David Whyte’s report from Barcelona provides an analysis concerning the current events in Catalonia that is lacking in other media. David Whyte, is a Professor of Socio-legal Studies at theUniversity of Liverpool and one of […]
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Francis Weyzig: There is no link between tax rates and competitiveness!
The Netherlands, already notorious for its corporate tax-avoiding regimen, is about to reduce its corporate tax further. Weyzig explains that “The facts show that corporate taxes are irrelevant for a country’s competitiveness”. It fact, it […]
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Yanis Varoufakis: Spain’s Crisis is Europe’s Opportunity
Published in Project Syndicate Yanis Varoufakis views the independence struggle of the Catalans from a European perpsective Read here
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Larry Elliot: Labour has a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and the Tories know it
People in Britain are ready for a radical change. The Tories are politically bankrupt, which most everyone seems to agree on. Trying to brand Corbyn a Marxist throwback who wants to turn Britain into Venezuela […]