Aviation
eu observer: EU Commission wary of Austria’s green air-price plan
How the EU will impose its Braun Deal: by blocking national governments from introducing measures to reduce CO2 Read here
Regulation
Deregulation
ETUC and ConoSur: Unions reject EU-Mercosur trade agreement
The agreement fails to include strong and binding safeguards that ensure protection of, and respect for, labour rights. Read here
Austerity
Sergio Cesaratto – The Next EU Degeneration
The Next Generation EU programme is full of pitfalls for many EU nations, as here in Italy. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the European […]
Austerity
Philippe Pochet – A Socio-Ecological Contract for a Post-Pandemic Europe
Philippe Pochet, general director of the European Trade Union Institute, about what the pandemic has meant for workers across Europe. The crisis may have opened a window of opportunity, but positive change cannot be taken […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – European Union – no democracy, no rule of law, no solidarity, no human rights, no economic miracle!
Bill Mitchell on Perry Anderson’s article “Ever Closer Union” Read here
EU politics
Wolfgang Münchau – Overloading: The European Union used to do a few things well. Now it does a lot of things badly
“Ms von der Leyen committed a grave error when she tried to trigger an emergency clause to impose border controls in Ireland. The error raises questions about her suitability for the job.” Read here
EU politics
Ben Wray – Which way forward for gig workers’ rights? France debates ‘wage portage’
The EU is moving towards a regulation of the Gig Economy. Lobbyists in Brussels are spending fast and heavy. What is on the table up to now? Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – COPA-COGECA: defending farmers in public and the agribusiness industry in private?
Over the next two weeks, the European Parliament will discuss its opinion on the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy. COPA-COGECA’s suggested amendments to MEPs were leaked, and confirm once again the organisation’s problematic positions: […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Political Economy Thought and Praxis Post Pandemic
This is the first in a series of talks by Bill Mitchell presented by the Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy headed by Heikki Patomäki
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Ins and Outs
For several years now, a serious effort has been under way in Brussels to learn nothing from Brexit, and the way things are it may well be successful. What could have been learned? Read here