EU politics
Costas Lapavitsas: Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour vs. the Single Market
If the next Labour government is to be truly transformative, it must lead Europe away from ordo- and neoliberalism. Read here
Regulation
EU politics
Sergi Cutillas – The only possible Eurozone reform is the one that doesn’t change a thing
This article was written before the collapse of the planned government and helps explain the EU political elite’ panic.. The 5 Star Movement is right. Although convicted of tax-dodging or corruption you can be a […]
EU politics
George Monbiot: Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause
George Monbiot is correct with his analysis, but who is going to change this? The Tories? The LibDems? The EU political elite? This is neo-liberalism and exactly what it is supposed to do. Politicians are […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Post-scandal Facebook: will the EU stop treating the tech giant as a trusted partner?
Following the Cambridge Analytica affair and the massive leak of 87 million people’s data revealed earlier this year, Facebook is facing unprecedented scrutiny of its business model and especially its use of users’ personal data. […]
Economics
Larry Elliot: Italy’s policies make sense – it’s eurozone rules that are absurd
“William Hague once described the euro as a burning building with no exits, and the experience of Italy over the past 20 years has proved that the then Conservative party leader was absolutely right.” Read […]
Corruption
Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]
EU politics
Vox EU: Peter Bofinger – Euro area reform: No deal is better than a bad deal
The recent proposals for euro area reform from a team of French and German economists have initiated an intensive debate. This column, part of VoxEU’s Euro Area Reform debate, argues that the specific insolvency risk of euro area […]
EU politics
Corporate Europe Observatory – How AirBnB is using the EU to defeat cities’ affordable housing laws
It’s an all too familiar story: international corporations using the EU Commission to force their interests on democratically elected municipal and state governments, against the interests of EU citizens. By Kenneth Haar, Researcher and campaigner […]
EU politics
Sergi Cutillas – Who is the vice-president of the European Central Bank Luis De Guindos?
Luis De Guindos is the EU elite’s right sort of politician, as Sergi Cutillas documents. Sergi Cutillas is an economist and worked in the financial sector before taking up his work as a financial justice […]
Austerity
Thomas Fazi and William Mitchell: Why the Left Should Embrace Brexit
Remainers claim that Brexit will be an economic apocalypse. But it provides the opportunity for a radical break with neoliberalism. Read here