Deregulation
EuroNews – European Parliament to take Commission to court over technology patents
Ursula Von Der Leyen’s European Commission has become little more than an institutional lobbyist for American big tech. Read the article HERE.
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Corruption
The scourge of sub-contracting in Europe: Interview with Silvia Borelli
Sub-contracting is an increasingly prevalent ploy by companies to avoid risk and responsibilities when it comes to their workers. Interview by José Álvarez Díaz, who specialises in international news and development and has worked as […]
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – The Dutch Confronted China. It Didn’t Go Well.
The story of the Nexperia fiasco tells us a lot about European decline. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Anna Toniolo, Corina Petridi, Pierluigi Bizzini – Boosted By Floods: Private Insurance in the Climate Emergency
As floods become more common in Europe, the cost of insurance grows, a financial burden that weighs heaviest on those with least. Anna Toniolo is a freelance journalist and a member of the FADA Collective. […]
EU politics
Jeffrey Sommers, Cosmin Marian – Why Latvia has grown tired of ‘European values’
The disappointments of neoliberalism post-Latvian independence has led to ‘European values’ falling out of favour. Cosmin Marian is Chair and Professor of the Department of Political Science at Romania’s Babeș-Bolyai University. He works on comparative […]
Austerity
José Álvarez Díaz – When it comes to forest fires, austerity kills
2025 is the first year that a million hectares were burnt in forest fires across Europe, but as the scale of the problem grows the scale of public resources to tackle it does not. José […]
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – Liberalism Is Surrendering to the Hard-Right Challenge
‘As Donald Trump tramples over the norms of the postwar liberal order, centrist political leaders are only too keen to accommodate him. Global liberalism is collapsing, while the battle over what replaces it is just […]
Austerity
Steve Keen – “The real problem isn’t deficits, It’s Neoliberalism“
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EU politics
Johan Alfonsson – How Sweden’s Social Democrats Abandoned the Working Class
‘The decline of Swedish social democracy is an illuminating case study in why the Left is losing the working class. It also offers clues as to how the Left might win workers back.’ In Jacobin. […]
Austerity
Richard Murphy – Why is it that the rich always seem to win?
Thomas Piketty called it the most important formula in economics: it’s R > G , which means that the rate of return on capital (R) is greater than the rate of growth in the economy […]