Environment
Nick Dearden: Tricks of the trade
Liam Fox is planning bargain-basement trade deals for Brexit Britain – but Labour policy promises to deliver trade justice and democracy for the many. Read here
Regulation
Austerity
Jeremy Smith and John Weeks – EU’s dysfunctional fiscal rules empower the far right, both in Italy and elsewhere
Prime Economics Co-Director Jeremy Smith and PEF Council member John Weeks analyse the “bar room budget-brawl” between the Italian government and the European Commission, and argue that the Commission’s wrong-footed response threatens to strengthen the […]
EU politics
Bloomberg: Browder Laundering Complaint Shows $97 Million Nokia Payment
The reputation of Scandinavian banks is going from tarnished to sullied, from hygga to organised crime. Read here
Austerity
Corporate Europe Observatory – The EU’s obstacle course for municipalism
Progressive municipalist city governments from Barcelona, to Naples, to Grenoble have introduced important policies to promote citizen participation, public ownership of services, expanded affordable housing, urban ecology and sustainable energy, better transparency and accountability, and […]
Economics
Rowland Atkinson – London’s extraordinary surplus of empty luxury apartments revealed
This article demonstrates only too well how financialisation of housing is transforming living space it into a commodity, in this case in London. Matt From London/Flickr., CC BY Rowland Atkinson, University of Sheffield More than […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: A Transmission Belt of German Supremacy
German politicians and media are intensifying pressure on Rome in anticipation of today’s EU Commission verdict on Italy’s national budget. Already last week, EU Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger announced, in reference to the Italian deficit, […]
Austerity
Heiner Flassbeck: Pierre Moscovici – the last French Socialist
It is more than tragic that the last high-ranking French Socialist is playing the role of the executioner of Italy. Fear of neo-liberalism will eventually be the death of the Social Democrat movement. Heiner Flassbeck […]
EU politics
Corporate Europe Observatory – Brexit trade deal: finance lobby allowed to work in secret
While all eyes are on the process for the UK leaving the European Union, far more attention needs to be given to how post-Brexit EU-UK trade negotiations are being conducted. The first moves have been […]
Austerity
Adam Tooze – On his book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World”
Adam Tooze on his book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World” in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” in Berlin. This is the German version. Unfortunately the English talk was […]
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: As the fracking protesters show, a people’s rebellion is the only way to fight climate breakdown
Our politicians, under the influence of big business, have failed us. As they take the planet to the brink, it’s time for disruptive, nonviolent disobedience Read here