EU politics
Euronews – Migration, defence, competitiveness: Here’s what will drive the EU’s work for the next five years
What’s in store from our unelected European Commission in the next half-decade. Read the article HERE.
European Union
EU politics
Paweł Cywiński – How Far-Right Konfederacja Became Poland’s Likely Kingmaker
Poland is set for a referendum on refugees to coincide with its parliamentary elections in October – a cocktail that will surely benefit the far-right. Paweł Cywiński has a PhD in social sciences and works at […]
Climate Crisis
Euronews – EU will launch anti-subsidy inquiry into China-made electric cars, von der Leyen says
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has sided with France in its battle with Germany over Chinese electric vehicle imports. No wonder she is a candidate for the next head of NATO – the […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project – In Bosnia and Herzegovina, platform work is taking-off but remains unregulated
The Gig Economy Project speaks to Amela Kurta and Ilma Kurtović, two of the authors’ of the first study of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s platform economy, about the emergence of gig work in the post-Soviet, post-war […]
EU politics
Katharina Natter – Reinventing a broken wheel: What the EU-Tunisia deal reveals about Europe’s migration cooperation
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 […]
EU politics
Sigrid Melchior, Harald Schumann – Media freedom: can Brussels agree on landmark law to protect Europe’s increasingly at-risk journalists?
Latest developments around attacks on freedom of the press in Europe and the EU Media Freedom Act. In ‘Investigate Europe’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Paola Tamma – Europe’s ‘template’ for migration: Tunisian strongman’s racist clampdown
The EU’s latest partner across the Med is carrying out a campaign of violence, mass expulsions and political repression. In ‘Politco.EU’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
George Kerevan – How the SNP was seduced by the EU’s fake internationalism
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 […]
EU politics
Politico – EU weighs sanctions on Niger as Gabon hit by latest coup
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.
Economics
Wolfgang Münchau: the end of the German era
This interview with Freddie Sayers in ‘UnHerd’ is an interesting analysis of Germany’s political and economic decline. Read the article HERE.