EU politics
German Foreign Policy: United Against Beijing
Germany has bee one of the great profiteers of the opening of the chinese economy. Worries are starting to grow as China expands its economic and political influence. Read here
Globalisation
Economics
John Rapley – Democracy Was Never All It Was Cut Out to Be Anyhow
Has democracy simply become a ploy to protect the haves from the increasingly have-nots. If so, its best sell by date seems to be approaching. John Rapley is a political economist and author of ‘Twilight […]
Deregulation
Heikki Patomäki – The Finnish University Strike 2018: A New Moment in the Process of Turning Universities into Business Corporations
BRAVE NEW EUROPE would like to thank Heikki for taking the time to write this upon our request. We find it an outstanding analysis, listing the conflicts confronting universities not only Finland, but all over […]
Austerity
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
Austerity
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi
Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]
Austerity
Thomas Piketty: Towards a Union in the Union
“The threat to the world today is not a trade war but a social war, conducted by means of aggressive policies of fiscal dumping which benefit the wealthiest and the most mobile.” Read here
Deregulation
Prem Sikka: This decision will make a mockery of EU claims to be tackling tax havens
American Samoa, Guam, Namibia, Palau, Samoa and Trinidad and Tobago. What do these nations have in common besides that you probably do not know where they are on the map? They will probably be the […]
EU politics
Reuters: EU court rules against tribunals settling intra-EU disputes
This is a very important case, as it starts to erode the authority of arbitration tribunals, in this case in the EU. Apparently this could affect law suits with corporations outside of the EU. Interesting is […]
EU politics
Aeron Davis: Is the British establishment finally finished?
The British elite in self-destruction mode. Aeron Davis looks at the developments in Britain’s establishment of the past 50 years and why it is inexorably dedicated to destroying itself – unfortunately with a lot of […]
Austerity
John Harris: If the elite ever cared about the have-nots, that didn’t last long
Most Remainers’ political analysis goes no deeper than those of the Brexiters. Both have a gut reaction: one knows the EU is destroying their lives, the others know that they profit from it. Read here […]