EU-Institutions
CEPR: How to get the European Banking Union unstuck
European Banking Union still has important gaps and deficiencies. A new CEPR Policy Insight analyses what it would take to get it unstuck. Read Here
Regulation
Climate Crisis
EEB: Commission’s 2023 Work Programme caves under chemical and farm industry pressures
The European Commission Work Programme (CWP) for 2023 scraps bold plans to protect Europeans from hazardous chemicals and transition to a nature-positive economy. Read Here
Climate Crisis
John P. Ruehl – How Europe Has Navigated Its Energy Crises
A multifaceted response from Europe has so far prevented its energy woes from creating widespread social and economic destabilization. But with winter approaching, the crisis is far from over and risks are getting worse. John […]
EU politics
Euractiv: Conservative MEPs still divided on platform worker status
The centre-right is still trying to find its position on the new rules to classify the status of platform workers, as shown by alternative compromise amendments seen by EURACTIV. Read Here
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck: Not Quite Enough: How the Pandemic Failed to Save Europe
“What we need instead is a sober analysis of the structural conditions, restrictive as wellas conducive, and of the realistically possible organizationalforms for a Europe capable of keeping its distance from bothChina and the USA, […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory: The deadly climate gamble
Dirty Energy bets on unproven ‘carbon removals’ to keep fossil fuels flowing Read Here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Big Tech now edges out Big Energy in EU lobbying
Companies with the highest-declared lobby budgets have increased their spending by a third since 2015 Corporate Europe Observatory is a non-profit research and campaign group whose declared aim is to “expose any effects of corporate […]
Climate Crisis
EEB: EU wastes more food than it imports, says new report
European Commission faces pressure to set legally binding targets to tackle food waste scandal. Read Here
EU politics
Sebastian Diessner – More questions than answers? The EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority
The EU, notorious den of money laundering, taking years to finally have a functioning authority and most concerned about where the offices will be. Sebastian Diessner is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University Cross-posted from […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: IMF reform proposals for the Eurozone are just weak band aids that cannot fix the dysfunctional mess
All the other options – such as the IMF’s current plan – just put band-aids over the mess – and they are weak bandages at best. Meanwhile, the ECB will have to continue funding the […]