While windfall profits of energy companies are being vehemently defended by the German government, including the Greens, those that are making losses are being subsidised. Welcome to the EU as Germany wants it.
EU politics
The Independent: Emmanuel Macron branded ‘hero of the rich’ for cutting taxes for the wealthiest in new French budget
Emmanuel Macron seems to be pushing through a neo-liberal policy that once again enriches the few and immiserates the many. What else is new in the European Union? Read here
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen: Nordhaus can have his Nobel, but we shouldn’t let his theory gamble with humanity’s future
William Nordhaus’s Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018 “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” is safe. But the world isn’t. Read here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – Eastern Europe: The Forgotten and Misunderstood European Hinterland
The Eastern European EU member states: a ticking time bomb. An excellent analysis. Read here
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