EU politics
Al Jazeera – EU threatens tariff hike of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles
The EU is mirroring the United States’ tariff policy on Chinese electric vehicles, despite Germany’s opposition. Read the article HERE.
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Thomas Fazi – Europe’s insurgent Right won’t change anything
The right-wing populists do not have a common agenda on Europe’s most pressing issues, and when they get a sniff of power they tend to bend towards the EU establishment anyway. In ‘Unherd’. Read the […]
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George Newth – EU elections: how Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni framed her politics throughout the campaign
Why would the far-right ever want rid of the EU, when it is serving it so well politically? George Newth is Lecturer in Politics and member of the Reactionary Politics Research Network at the University […]
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Yanis Varoufakis: The EU Is Becoming a Union for War
‘Faced with Israel’s war in Gaza, several European states have slandered and silenced protesters. Ahead of next weekend’s elections to the European Parliament, Yanis Varoufakis tells Jacobin how a militaristic policy is taking over the EU.’ Read […]
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Politico – Von der Leyen needs 361 votes to keep her job. Good luck with that.
Everyone appalled by the Gaza genocide should pressure MEPs not to vote to give Ursula Von Der Leyen a second-term as European Commission President. Read the article HERE.
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Barah Mikaïl – The EU’s outsourced migration control is violent, expensive and ineffective
The EU externalising its borders is neither effective nor moral, and it won’t restrain support for the far-right either. Barah Mikaïl is Associate professor of International Security at IE University in Madrid. Cross-posted from The […]
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Fausto Corvino: Europe’s climate laws could spell the end to low-cost flights – but what about private jets?
Private flights in Europe have increased from just under 120,000 in 2020 to more than half a million in 2022, yet the European Commission has no plans to do anything about it. Fausto Corvin is […]
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Almut Rochowanski, Sopo Japaridze – Stop Blackmailing Georgians Over EU Membership
‘Anti-government protests in Tbilisi have been hailed as a fight over Georgia’s European future — even though the government itself wants to join the EU. Amid the geopolitical posturing, the real issue being ignored is […]
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Pierre Micheletti – Why the EU’s new migration laws could lead to more deaths at sea
The EU’s new Asylum and Migration Pact is worse than useless. Pierre Micheletti is responsible for the “Health – Solidarity – Precariousness” degree at the Faculty of Medicine of Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). Cross-posted […]
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Politico – Don’t assume von der Leyen is coming back
The European Commission President’s path to a second term may not be as straight-forward as it first seemed. Read the article HERE.