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Martha Myers: Amid rising climate catastrophes, why is the EU putting an oil man in charge?

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has appointed former Shell employee Wopke Hoekstra as the new Climate Commissioner. Hoekstra’s “most noteworthy political achievement regarding climate is as a target of a parliamentary inquiry, where […]

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Katharina Natter – Reinventing a broken wheel: What the EU-Tunisia deal reveals about Europe’s migration cooperation

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Useful insight into what countries on the other side of the Mediterranean gain from signing migration control deals with the EU. It’s not good. Katharina Natter is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political […]

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Sigrid Melchior, Harald Schumann – Media freedom: can Brussels agree on landmark law to protect Europe’s increasingly at-risk journalists?

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Latest developments around attacks on freedom of the press in Europe and the EU Media Freedom Act. In ‘Investigate Europe’. Read the article HERE.

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George Kerevan – How the SNP was seduced by the EU’s fake internationalism

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The history of the Scottish National Party’s trajectory from arch-critics of the EU in the 1970s to arch-sycophants today. George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist and economist, and a former SNP MP. Cross-posted from Conter […]

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Politico – EU weighs sanctions on Niger as Gabon hit by latest coup

August 30, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The EU are struggling to keep up with the revolt against French neo-colonialism in Africa, with eight coups against pro-French rulers in the past three years. Read the article HERE.

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Neil Warner: The Idea of “Social Europe” Became an Alibi for the European Union’s Neoliberal Turn

August 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

European left parties responded to the crisis of social democracy by proposing more radical reforms to be carried out at a transnational level. But the call for “social Europe” ended up serving as a thin […]

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Jacobin: European Authorities Refuse to Save Migrants From Drowning — So Ordinary Citizens Are Doing It Instead

August 16, 2023 Ben Wray 0

In June, Italy’s government impounded the Sea-Eye 4 rescue ship for 20 days as part of a crackdown on NGOs that save migrants’ lives at sea. Crew members told Robin Jaspert why they won’t be intimidated by authorities […]

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Marco D’Eramo: Darning the Planet

August 9, 2023 Ben Wray 0

On the climate crisis and the political class. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Tatu Ahponen: Finland’s Neoliberal and Far-Right Alliance Is a Sign of Things to Come in Europe

July 17, 2023 Ben Wray 0

In Finland, a new government represents how compatible neoliberal and far-right politics are. The Left must answer the challenge by opposing austerity in addition to racism. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.

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Balkan Green Energy News – EU auditors: Billions spent in vain on circular economy transition

July 10, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A report by the European Court of Auditors has found that the circular transition is “almost at a standstill in European countries.” Read the article HERE.

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

December 3, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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