Economics
Shaun Richards: The German economy contracts as inflation picks up on both Spain and Italy
Germany is entering recession, despite predictions from the great and the good that it wouldn’t. Read the article HERE.
Germany
EU politics
Baher Kamal – US installs new nukes in Europe: As destructive as 83 Hiroshima bombs
Mainstream media has hardly even noticed that the United States has just installed more powerful nuclear weapons in Europe. Baher Kamal is an Egyptian-born, Spanish national, secular journalist, publisher and editor of Human Wrongs Watch with nearly five […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Europe deindustrialising?
Varoufakis writes in ‘Project Syndicate’ on European capitalism, which is rich in terrestrial capital but has fallen behind the US and China in “cloud capital”. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Politico: Majority of Western companies doing business as usual in Russia, study finds
Only about 8 percent of EU firms have divested from Russia, with the majority of Western firms still active in the country being German. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
John Foster: The Greens are dead – Lützerath and German Environmentalism
John Foster writes in ‘The Battleground’ substack that the protests against a new coal mine in Lützerath, which is in the Nordrhein-Westfalen region of Germany, is turning into a nightmare for the Greens, who govern […]
EU politics
Milan Babic, Adam Dixon: What the Cosco affair told us about Germany’s relations with China
Contrary to popular opinion, Chinese investment into Germany is declining. On the otherhand, German capital is flooding into China, while reliance on Chinese imports is rising too Milan Babic is an Assistant Professor in Global […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: Getting Closer
On war-fever among Germany’s liberal left. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Aleks Szczerbiak: Why has the Polish government raised the German war reparations issue?
As Poland nears its 2023 election, the governing party is stoking the embers of the German war reparations question Cross-posted from The Polish Politics Blog Poland’s right-wing ruling party is using the war reparations issue […]
Gig Economy
Rasmus Hjorth – Berlin Lieferando couriers Works’ Council election: Notes from a Danish courier
Rasmus Emil Hjorth, Danish rank-and-file Wolt courier in the Wolt Workers’ Group, reports from Berlin, where he has been helping the Lieferando Workers’ Collective as the couriers elect their first Works’ Council The Gig Economy […]
EU politics
Peter Becker: Germany’s U-turn over the EU’s recovery funds was further evidence of its role as Europe’s ‘status quo power’
The EU recovery funds have been wrongly interpreted as a major policy shift – they were a minor tweak in order to maintain the current European order in a moment of acute crisis Peter Becker […]