EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau – Ukraine: The cheerleading has to stop
Despite military setbacks, Vladimir Putin is still on course to achieve his strategic targets. Read Here
Wolfgang Munchau
EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau: Is the EU losing its mooring?
The hypocrisy in the EU is astonishing, be it the greening of gas and nuclear, the carve outs for fossil fuels and agricultural products, or the sudden enthusiasm for (white, blond haired, Christian) refugees Read […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau – What happens at EU’s eastern borders?
The next step to shooting people on EU borders is closer than anyone dares to think. As usual, EU liberal-democracy is nothing more than moral posturing behind which stands a brutal neo-liberalism. Not mentioned in […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau: Norway’s eurosceptics
Yes, people are awaking to failures of the EU. Read here
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Munchau: Cap reforms – not going to work
“Triumphant breakthroughs” are an EU term for further failure, this time with the common agricultural policy. Read here
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Munchau – What Greens should focus on
Why co-opting industry into the Green agenda is a mistake. Read here
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Munchau: Clean and green vs belt and road
Once again another questionable capitalist project with a green label Read here
Fake News
Wolfgang Munchau – What happened to the Fourth Estate? (It is still there. But fading.)
What happened is that the old media are still pursuing the same model of selling stories. What they should be doing instead is providing information – the stuff that is in the public interest that […]
Fake News
Wolfgang Munchau – Why pundits get it wrong
The left-right-centre model of political analysis has long ceased to be useful Read here
Economics
Wolfgang Münchau: So much for the Brexit scare stories
Apart from a short-lived disruption of trade flows Brexit has been a macroeconomic non-event. Read here