Geopolitics
Politico – US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
The US is a mafia state threatening anyone who doesn’t do its bidding. Read the article HERE.
Trade
Geopolitics
EuroNews – EU defends sovereign right to regulate tech against Trump’s latest tariff threat
After capitulating to Trump, did the European Commission really thing it would end there. The trade deal was agreed a month ago and The Donald is already back for more. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Politico – Commission ‘surprised’ by German criticism of EU-US trade deal
Even the German government is throwing the Commission under the bus, even though the deal was almost certainly only agreed to on behalf of German capital. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Ingar Solty – Europe Signs Up for Its Century of Humiliation
‘EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has signed Europe up to a humiliating, unequal trade deal with the United States. The terms dictated by Donald Trump reflect Europe’s vassal status as an increasingly junior partner […]
EU politics
Thomas Fazi – EU trade deal is a capitulation to America
The EU may have signed it’s own death warrant with this deal. In ‘Unherd’. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Michael Roberts – Geoeconomics, nationalism and trade
Neoclassical economics may be on the way out in the mainstream, to be replaced with geoeconomics: winning the battle for political and economic power by all means necessary. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the […]
EU politics
Politico – EU will use Trump tariff freeze to push new fossil fuel deal
Re-packaging the same deferential energy trade policy with the US is a sign that Brussels has learned nothing from the events of the last two weeks. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Michael Roberts – Trump’s slump
Trump’s high-stakes gamble to turn around American manufacturing is likely to fail and at the same time trigger a global slump. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted […]
Finance
Politico – EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffs
There is a whiff of desperation about Von Der Leyen’s attempt to stop a tariff war with the US. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Benjamin Bradlow, Alexandros Kentikelenis – Technology and Transition
The role of technology transfers in international trade, particularly in the context of the green transition. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.