Corruption
Follow the Money – Brussels admits EU funds flowed to spyware firms after FTM probe
The EU has been directly financing commercial spyware companies in the EU linked to nefarious practices. Read the article HERE.
European Union
Environment
Matteo Trevisan – Dead Rivers and Vanishing Villages: The Scramble for Serbia’s Minerals
Serbia is one of the few European countries with abundant critical raw materials: that is drawing the attention of great powers near and far. Matteo Trevisan is a photographer and videomaker from Italy’s Friuli Venezia […]
Geopolitics
John Rees – The ticking bomb of European rearmament
European arms manufacturers are growing at an alarming rate – it will be the European people that pay for all these new weapons of destruction. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University […]
EU politics
Euronews – Amazon internet service outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech’
If a Chinese company had gone down and it had knocked out wide sections of Europe’s internet, a continent-wide emergency would have been announced. But when it’s American big tech that goes wrong, there is […]
Deregulation
Politico – EU leaders to double down on deregulation drive
Von Der Leyen brought in a bunch of reforms to make Europe more ‘competitive’, and now wants to unwind a lot of that to…make Europe more ‘competitive’. That’s the level of political leadership in Brussels […]
Finance
Mark Episkopos – Europe’s latest seized Russian asset scheme is as dumb as ever
European leaders have a penchant for self-harm when it comes to the Ukraine war: everything they do comes back at them like a boomerang. Mark Episkopos is a Eurasia Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute […]
Geopolitics
Lily Lynch – False Choice?
On Moldova’s election. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
‘The West demanded that we get involved in war with Russia’: Interview w/ Georgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili
The European Union wants Georgia to be a client state, but Georgians appear to have other ideas. Interview by Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was […]
Austerity
William Thomson, Dirk Ehnts – Should an independent Scotland adopt the EU fiscal rules?
An independent Scotland would likely start life with a substantial public deficit so adopting the EU’s fiscal rules would mean austerity. William Thomson is a political economist and has worked for almost a decade in […]
Geopolitics
Eldar Mamedov – Kaja Kallas’ shocking lack of historical literacy
The EU’s foreign affairs chief proves that ignorance is no barrier to career success in Brussels. Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and Non-resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft […]