EU politics
UNHCR sounds alarm as Mediterranean Sea deaths pass 1,500 mark
Obviously the EU is making absolutely no progress in solving the refugee crisis on its border. Read here
Racism
EU politics
Lorenzo Marsili: “The most important challenge of our day is to escape the borders of nation states”
Marsili throws his hat in the ring for the EU, not for the curretn neo-liberal EU, but one based on solidarity and justice, with civil society and social movements showing that alternatives to the status […]
EU politics
All That Is Solid … : Extreme Centrism
You may think of Momentum what you wish, but this piece is grasping a concept that is too often ignored – and it is elusive. The author, who has a party agenda, has missed an […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – How the EU has become an incubator for fascism
What no one is considering is that the resurrection of fascism in the EU could well be a logical consequence of the EU’s policies of the past decades, actually stabilising the European Union and allowing […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy – Libya: Europe’s Deputy Sheriffs
The EU policy of “Pretend and Defend” with regard to Libya`s coastguard continues. This is a criminal gang, which the EU is portraying as an efficient military institution. There has been no end of reporting […]
EU politics
Branko Milanovic – Habermas and pimps: the world of the day and the world of the night
The problem that Milanovic recognises is the loss of a sense of community. One group seeks to attack the other, excluding them from the community. There are those who seek to identify themselves as the […]
Austerity
counterfire: Brexit and the left, two years on
Here is the take on Brexit by the British socialists: Read here
National Politics
Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe: Neoliberals Against Europe
Why nationalists can appear nationalistic and anti-EU , but still be solid neo-liberals. This somewhat lengthy paper analyses what the rightist populist political parties beyond their rhetoric really stand for. Read here
EU politics
Amanda Russell Beattie, Gemma Bird and Patrycja Rozbicka – Europe should remember its own treatment of refugees while protesting against Donald Trump
Many of the protests that took place against Donald Trump during his visit to the UK focused on his policies toward refugees. Amanda Russell Beattie, Gemma Bird and Patrycja Rozbicka argue that while the protesters […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: The Italian crisis was the Left’s final warning
The Left must adopt a new, credible EU policy agenda: It’s time to explain how the bloc, and the euro, could be run differently, democratically and sustainably Read here