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BRAVE NEW EUROPE one year on
A romp through the archives of BRAVE NEW EUROPE month by month over its first year is a rewarding exercise. Not only is it a helpful reminder of the big issues of the day as […]
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EU politics
Riccardo Labianco – Spain tries to limit arms sales to Saudi Arabia – but following international law is expensive
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Madrid on bilateral business, April 2018. EPA/Kiko Huesca Riccardo Labianco, SOAS, University of London The Spanish government recently found itself confronting a deeply unpleasant dilemma: whether […]
Austerity
Gianpasquale Santomassimo – Italy: Fatherland and Constitution
Fatherland and Constitution, Patria e Costituzione, is a and left-wing political association founded in Italy in September 2018 by Stefano Fassina, a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Free and Equal (Liberi e […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Why growth can’t be green
The promise of green growth turns out to have been based more on wishful thinking than on evidence. In the years since the Rio conference, three major empirical studies have arrived at the same rather […]
Economics
The Film “The Spider´s Web” has been released in youtube (Watch here)
The Film “The Spider´s Web” has been released in youtube. A film one has to see to understand finance capital in Britain and tax havens. Sponsor the next film on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/independentdo… Here our review […]
Austerity
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 […]
Austerity
Sergi Cutillas – Pedro Sánchez’s social democratic government presents a neo-liberal deficit target
Following years of neo-liberal regimen under the right-wing Partido Popular under its leader Mariano Rajoy, the social democrats (PSOE), led by Pedro Sánchez, are now under pressure to reverse these policies, something that they appear to […]
EU politics
Chantal Mouffe – Demonising populism won’t work – Europe needs a progressive populist alternative
How should Europe react to the rise of populist parties? Chantal Mouffe argues that the consensus established between centre-right and centre-left parties on the notion there is no alternative to neoliberal globalisation has left Europe […]
EU politics
Positive Money Europe – Greece leaves Troika programme, but ECB’s bullying goes on
After 8 years, Greece finally left its adjustment programme, just to be confronted with a harder challenge: financing itself from financial markets. However, by continuing to exclude Greek bonds from its quantitative easing programme, the […]
Economics
Guy Standing – Why a Job Guarantee is a bad joke for the precariat – and for freedom
“Rather than jobs per se, the primary challenge is to build a new income distribution system, recognising that the old one has broken down irretrievably. The rentiers are running away with all the revenue thrown […]