EU politics
Politico – Sculpting Europe in MAGA’s image
The media are waking up to the reality of the US’s new National Security Strategy for Europe. Read the article HERE.
European Union
Geopolitics
Politico – Using Russian assets to fund Ukraine looks ‘increasingly difficult,’ says EU top diplomat
Is there any scheme which the European Commission has tried against Russia over the past four years which hasn’t back-fired? Every time Brussels tries to do something it only ends up exposing their own weakness. […]
Economics
Joachim Becker – The Alternative Economic Model of Europe’s Nationalist Right
‘Right-wing nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland only made a selective break with neoliberal economics after the 2008 crash. Their goal was to strengthen domestic capital against foreign competitors without doing anything to empower workers.’ […]
Corruption
Politico – EU’s Mogherini and Sannino in custody in fraud probe
Count up all the corruption scandals in Brussels in recent years and it’s clear that it’s endemic. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – The Dutch Confronted China. It Didn’t Go Well.
The story of the Nexperia fiasco tells us a lot about European decline. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Jeffrey Sommers, Cosmin Marian – Why Latvia has grown tired of ‘European values’
The disappointments of neoliberalism post-Latvian independence has led to ‘European values’ falling out of favour. Cosmin Marian is Chair and Professor of the Department of Political Science at Romania’s Babeș-Bolyai University. He works on comparative […]
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.
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 […]