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Thomas Piketty: Social-nativism, the Italian nightmare
Piketty brings together two simple phenomena: a neo-liberal EU resulting in a neo-liberal/far-right success – in this case in Italy. Read here
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German Foreign Policy: EU- State of the Union
The EU must develop the capacity “to shape global affairs” and act as “architect of tomorrow’s world,” declared Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission during his “State of the Union” speech yesterday. The speech […]
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Nandini Archer – “This story rarely gets told”: 10 years of women’s resistance to austerity across Europe
From the UK to Greece, women have been hit hardest by austerity policies since the 2008 financial crisis. This month, 50.50 will spotlight our stories of resistance. Nandini Archer is a human rights activist, writer […]
EU politics
Common Space – Analysis: All eyes on Brexit, but the EU ship is hitting the rocks
While the UK Conservatives continue to bicker and infight over post-EU Britain, the Brussels ship continues to sink. CommonSpace examines major political developments on the Continent. Read here
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Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – Turkey, Greece, Italy, etc.
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include Trump’s spat […]
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Victoria Canning, Alaa Kassab, and Karam Yahya – From Syria to Scandinavia: Navigating the Refugee Reception Crisis
Since 2015, Europe’s so-called refugee crisis has been the centre of intense debate. But what if we began to look at it another way: as a refugee reception crisis? Rather than a crisis in the […]
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Aditya Chakrabortty: These councils smashed themselves to bits. Who will pick up the pieces?
Experts saw it coming – it was inevitable: The neo-liberal discourse that private is better. It is pernicious. The question is when the British will stop voting for Tory ideology and hoping a fairytale will […]
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Éric Fassin – The neo-fascist moment of neoliberalism
How can we understand the simultaneous rise of the far right and the authoritarian evolution of neoliberalism? We need an antifascism that can highlight the latter’s role in this “neo-fascist moment.” Also read “How the […]
EU politics
Politics Theory Other: Richard Seymour on the Labour Party’s anti-semitism row
As the political and economic situation in the United Kingdom declines rapidly, corporate media has concentrated on purported anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Politics Theory Other tries to determine how well founded this claim is. […]
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UNHCR sounds alarm as Mediterranean Sea deaths pass 1,500 mark
Obviously the EU is making absolutely no progress in solving the refugee crisis on its border. Read here