EU politics
Thomas Fazi: Does Europe need to split?
Thomas Fazi writes in ‘Unherd’ on the growing East-West divide in the European Union. Read the article HERE.
Europe
Finance
#ReWolt: Why are Wolt strikes spreading across Europe?
Strikes at Wolt have taken place in at least eight European countries since the start of the year, with four occurring in the past week. Why are the riders taking action now? The Gig Economy […]
EU politics
Jacobin: How Russia’s war broke the backbone of the European left
Interesting interview with author of new book ‘This war does not end in Ukraine’. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Serena Di Luccio – Windfall profits for banks, crisis for people: The money system is unfair and needs to be reformed
As a consequence of the European Central Bank (ECB) raising its interest rates, banks in the euro area will earn €70 billion in unearned windfall profits. Cross-posted from Positive Money Europe There is a huge […]
Finance
Tech Won’t Save Us: What new EU rules might mean for gig workers
Paris Marx, host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, is joined by Ben Wray, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator, to discuss the fight to win a pro-worker Platform Work Directive in the European Union, Uber’s […]
Finance
Ben Cuzzupe, Peter Norwood: Crunch time for consumer credit in Europe
As the cost of living crisis bites, working class Europeans are increasingly getting into problematic debt. Ben Cuzzupe is an Editor and Communications Officer at Finance Watch. Peter Norwood is a Senior Research and Advocacy […]
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.
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, […]