EU politics
Politico – EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech and US banks over Trump’s mega tariffs
Let’s see whether when it comes down to it, Von Der Leyen is really prepared to take on Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Read the article HERE.
European Union
EU politics
Pascal Lottaz – Europe’s Walk of The Dammed: War Hysteria Today, War Euphoria Tomorrow
‘The continent is racing in Seven-Mile-Boots toward its next calamity. The Trump-Abandonment shock is stoking a war fever not seen in a century.’ In Pascal Lottaz’ Substack. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
European Union: EU Boosts Support for Independent Media in Ukraine with an Additional €10 Million
If media are financed by the EU, they are no longer “independent” Read HERE This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license CC-BY-4.0
EU politics
Binoy Kampmark – Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug
The merchants of death are on the march in Brussels, and have little time for democratic norms. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com Cross-posted from […]
Geopolitics
Samuel Mcilhagga, John Baptiste-Oduor – Why Donald Trump Has Turned on Europe
‘For decades, European leaders fostered a willing dependence on the United States that has made the continent acutely vulnerable to the superpower’s whims. Donald Trump has sensed this weakness and is using it to advance […]
EU politics
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Europe Enters Its Metal Era
Analysis of Europe’s defence and energy industrial base, which is not prepared for the arms race which Brussels now wants all European countries to engage in. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Corporate Europe Observatory – The EU’s lobby league table
In-depth analysis of corporate lobbying in Brussels. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in […]
Corruption
Thomas Fazi – The EU’s propaganda machine
A summary of Fazi’s latest report, finding that the EU funds NGOs to promote itself. Read the full article HERE.
Finance
Politico – European carmakers in crossfire of US-EU trade war
German automanufacturers are facing the perfect storm – falling behind China technologically, and having their access to the US market reduced. Read the article HERE.
National Politics
Costi Rogozanu – Fractured Romania
In-depth analysis of the tumult in Romania over it’s recent election and the significant divisions which lie behind it. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.