Economics
Corporate Europe Observatory – Off the hook?
How business lobbies against liability for human rights and environmental abuses Read here
Regulation
Climate Crisis
Chelsea Baldino, Stephanie Searle – EU: GO big or GO home with e-fuels and hydrogen
The EU is already preparing to cheat on the Green Deal just as they did with the diesel cheating devices used by European car manufacturers to get past emissions laws. Chelsea Baldino is a Researcher […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Big Pharma’s lobbying firepower in Brussels: at least €36 million a year (and likely far more)
Big Pharma is currently waging a fierce lobbying battle to protect its monopoly patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. While Corporate Europe Observatory broadly outlines the sector’s lobby spending, this is likely to be […]
Austerity
Thomas Fazi – The Eternal Return of “Technical Government” in Italy
If there is a country that epitomizes the perils of technopopulism, it is Italy Read here
Economics
Vladimir Bogoeski – Germany: Harvesting injustice
How the legacy of neoliberal labour market regulation helps exclude seasonal migrant workers from social security in Germany Vladimir Bogoeski is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and an associate researcher at the […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Dr Die Schwarze Null still not thinking beyond more austerity
Wolfgang Schäuble is the person who personified the so-called ‘die schwarze null’ (Black Zero) while finance Minister. His conduct as finance minister was an instrumental element in extending the GFC across the Eurozone. He is […]
Corruption
The Counterbalance – The European System of Monopoly
An interview with Tommaso Valletti, who served as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission from 2016 until 2019. He tells us how, after moving from academic life to policy and being confronted with questions […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Either the Eurozone as we know it is dead or Italy goes out – latest research
Research finds that if the technocrats start forcing Italy into austerity measures via a return to the Excessive Deficit Mechanism (and enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact fiscal rules) then the majority of Italians […]
Economics
Adam Tooze – Mario Draghi and Italy’s years of crisis
Some useful information concerning Mario Draghi’s intellectual formation Read here
Austerity
Sergio Cesaratto – Eurobond: Italy’s move to avoid austerity and debt restructuring
Without Eurobonds, Italy risks a debt restructuring accompanied by austerity. The currently planned Recovery Fund is not enough to solve the EU’s problems Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and of Monetary […]