Economics
BRAVE NEW EUROPE: Wolfgang Streeck – Quo Vadis the European Union?
2 May 2024 This is the first interview in our series “The State of the Union” in the run up to the EU parlaiamentary elections in June.
Regulation
Climate Crisis
ARC – Goodbye Green and Fair, Hello Fortress Europe – Eco Ambitions dropped from EU leaders’ draft 5-year plan
It’s back to the future as the EU’s green ambitions face the chopping block, with priorities shifting to security and competition. That’s according to the European Council’s vision for the next 5 years, as revealed […]
Climate Crisis
Arthur Nelsen – The EU’s great green retreat benefits capitalism. For the rest of us, it’s a looming disaster
Environmental pledges are being shredded to please agribusiness and appease extremists. It’s a terrible mistake, but only a fool would have expected anything different Arthur Nelsen is a journalist Cross-posted from Other News The EU’s […]
Economics
Helene Schuberth – The European Union’s New Risk-Based Framework for Fiscal Rules – Overly Complex, Opaque and Self-Defeating
The discrepancy between technocratic rhetoric and economic facts is colossal Chief Economist, Economics Department of the Austrian Trade Unions Confederation (ÖGB) Cross-posted from INET On February 10th, 2024, representatives of the European Council, the European […]
Economics
Philip Di Salvo, Antje Scharenberg – AI bias: the organised struggle against automated discrimination
Artificial Intelligence systems are already a major part of our lives in Europe, and are automating inequality. Philip Di Salvo is a Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of St.Gallen. Antje Scharenberg is a […]
Environment
Morgan Ody, Vincent Delobel: Farmers’ protests in Europe and the deadend of neoliberalism
Scrapping environmental protections will not solve the agricultural crisis in Europe Morgan Ody is a vegetable farmer from Brittany, France and General Coordinator of La Via Campesina Vincent Delobel is a Walloon farmer, is a […]
Deregulation
Yanis Varoufakis: The EU cartel was designed to crush farmers – Rural workers didn’t stand a chance
Manos, a sixth-generation farmer from Thessaly, put it to me bluntly when I asked him to explain why he was prepared to drive his tractor 400km to Athens to camp outside Parliament: “If I don’t, […]
Economics
Philipp Heimberger: The agreed reform of EU fiscal rules – A short-sighted compromise
EU co-legislators have reached an agreement on reforming EU fiscal rules. The key change will be to make the assessment of fiscal policy more long term and country specific, with debt sustainability analysis used as […]
Corruption
Natasha Foote – Parliament greenlights plans to loosen EU rules on new GMOs – but with key conditions
The European Parliament has given its blessing to the EU’s plan to loosen rules on new genetic technologies, but added key conditions on labelling requirements and a ban on patents – the latter of which […]
EU politics
Tomaso Ferrando – Address the root causes of European farmers’ anger
The demands of those on the farmers’ protests are complex, but they all agree that a food system that treats food like any other commodity is a root cause of the problem. Tomaso Ferrando is […]