Climate Crisis
Claudia Horn: Europe Needs to Radicalise Its Climate Policies in Response to the Energy Crisis
The EU is watering down its tepid ecological reforms as energy prices soar. Read the article HERE.
Europe
EU politics
Thomas Simon Mattia: Why Were Italians Swayed to the Right by the Brothers of Italy?
Italy didn’t vote for fascism, they voted for the far-right because they offered a message of security, whereas the left failed to offer a credible answer to the key concerns of Italians Cross-posted from Green […]
EU politics
Aleks Szczerbiak: Why has the Polish government raised the German war reparations issue?
As Poland nears its 2023 election, the governing party is stoking the embers of the German war reparations question Cross-posted from The Polish Politics Blog Poland’s right-wing ruling party is using the war reparations issue […]
Economics
Patrick Kaczmarczyk: Interest rate hikes are not the answer to Europe’s inflation problem
The history of ECB rate hikes is disastrous – there’s little reason to believe it will go any better this time Cross-posted from the LSE EUROPP blog INFLATION rates across the Eurozone are putting the […]
Deregulation
Prabir Purkayastha: Why Our Electricity Prices Can’t Be Left to Bogus ‘Free Markets’
The design of electricity markets in Europe was inspired by Pinochet’s Chilean neoliberal dictatorship, which even put “marginal price” in the constitution. It’s time to bury the neoliberal experiment for good. This article was produced […]
Climate Crisis
Marco D’Eramo: Odourless Utopia
Are we heading for a future of water wars in Eurasia? Read the article HERE
National Politics
Jan P. Vogler: How Europe’s history of interstate rivalry is linked to global imperialism – and why it still matters today
Inter-state European competition was a key driving force of empire, the legacy of which is still very much present in contemporary global power relations Cross-posted from the LSE Europe blog On the surface, it may […]