Economics
Shaun Richards: The German economy contracts as inflation picks up on both Spain and Italy
Germany is entering recession, despite predictions from the great and the good that it wouldn’t. Read the article HERE.
Europe
EU politics
Baher Kamal – US installs new nukes in Europe: As destructive as 83 Hiroshima bombs
Mainstream media has hardly even noticed that the United States has just installed more powerful nuclear weapons in Europe. Baher Kamal is an Egyptian-born, Spanish national, secular journalist, publisher and editor of Human Wrongs Watch with nearly five […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Europe deindustrialising?
Varoufakis writes in ‘Project Syndicate’ on European capitalism, which is rich in terrestrial capital but has fallen behind the US and China in “cloud capital”. Read the article HERE.
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Marco D’Eramo: The Death Gap
“There’s no injustice more frightening – more definitive, more irredeemable – than inequality of life expectancy: a form of discrimination whereby years, sometimes decades, are stolen from the majority and given to a select few, […]
Corruption
Euractiv: Wiretapping scandal: Greece heading towards autocracy, S&D says
The ‘Greek Watergate’ scandal is an example of how hollowed out democracy is in in Europe. Read the article HERE.
Energy
Gubad Ibadoghlu: Why EU plans to increase gas imports from Azerbaijan are unrealistic
The EU’s vision of replacing Russian gas with Azerbaijani gas is a pipe dream. Cross-posted from the LSE EUROPP blog In July last year, the EU signed an Energy Memorandum with Azerbaijan. While this was described as […]
EU politics
Sebnem Eroglu: Many Turkish people who migrated to European countries are worse off than those who stayed at home
Research suggests European labour markets are failing migrants and their descendants. Cross-posted from The Conversation Europe Many people migrate to another country to earn a decent income and to attain a better standard of living. But my recent […]
Uncategorized
Ben Wray: From decline to leaps?
The global capitalist system is failing society in just about every way imaginable. We have to hope decline is laying the foundations for a great leap forward. Ben Wray is co-ordinator of Brave New Europe’s […]
EU politics
Patrick Cockburn: Ukraine May Secure a Victory Against Russia in Name, But the World won’t Escape the War’s Aftermath
Russia’s war has proven to be a huge strategic blunder, but the country still has military options and the damage to Europe only grows greater Cross-posted from Counterpunch Seldom in European history has an invading […]
Climate Crisis
Colin McCarthy: Winter heatwave smashes records
1 January 2023 saw records for the hottest January day ever recorded smashed in places across Europe. Read the Tweet thread HERE.