Another annoyance for the EU, but as long as the corrupt Romanian political class maintains the four freedoms guaranteeing a neo-liberal diktat, it will remain just that: an annoyance. By the way, the party leading the Romanian political mafia are the Social Democrats, who are part of the faction Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EU parliament, together with among others the German Social Democrats, Spanish and French Socialists, and the British Labour Party. What was the saying about birds of a feather?
EU politics
Vanessa Beeley: Bordeaux: Gilets Jaunes, Acte XXV, Militarization of French Security Forces
My full conversation with a French police officer yesterday during Acte XXV of the #GiletsJaunes protests. 25 weeks of state sanctioned violence and savagery. Thankfully, yesterday was relatively quiet and ended without any major tension […]
EU politics
Chris Dillow: “The country”
Who is the nation? Chris Dillow, as so often, opens a door that we walk past every day and never ask what is behind it. Read here
Deregulation
Simon Wren-Lewis: How Neoliberals weaponise the concept of an ideal market
Using Colin Crouch’s new book “Can Neoliberalism Be Saved From Itself” as a starting point, Wren-Lewis re-examines his own definition of neo-liberalism. He comes to the conclusion that neo-liberalism is the misuse of the ideal […]
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