Blogger The General Theorist wonders whether Christine Lagarde’s patchy performance as managing director of the IMF qualifies her for the trickier role of president of the European Central Bank. “The assumption that Lagarde is a like-for-like replacement of Mario Draghi is a huge misreading of her track-record.”
EU politics
Politico: Brussels banned TikTok. Europe has questions.
The EU has banned members of staff from using the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok and advised MEPs to get rid of the app. But it has failed to offer any real explanation as to why […]
Corruption
eu observer: The non-accountable MEPs
Neo-liberalism can only flourish where democracy is reduced to a minimum, to folklore. The EU is neo-liberal. Thus the European Court of Justice will almost always decide against democracy. Read here
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis: For Europe’s sake, Britain must not be defeated
Yanis Varoufakis on the Brexit negotiations Read here A standard note on Brexit We at Brave New Europe don’t take a position on Brexit. While we recognise that many dark and odious forces lay behind […]
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