The text of the talk I gave yesterday at the full-house launch of my latest MCC Brussels report: “The silent coup: the European Commission’s power grab”
Austerity
Jamie Jordan, Vincenzo Maccarrone, Roland Erne – There is little evidence the EU’s post-crisis economic governance regime has moved in a more ‘social’ direction
What? The EU, that most perfect institution in the world, putting neo-liberal policy before the welfare of its citizens? Why did no one tell us? Maybe the Brexiteers were onto something after all. Read here
Climate Crisis
CommonSpace – Analysis: Yellow Vests hold out more hope for climate revolution than suits in Katowice
CommonSpace editor Ben Wray looks at how climate activists should respond to the Yellow Vests movement in France, which has defeated attempts to impose taxes on fuel prices Read here
EU politics
David Cronin – German weapons giant acts as sales rep for Israel’s “suicide drones”
Genocide is a marketable commodity. That seems to be the message from Itzik Huber, a leading figure in the Israeli weapons maker UVision. “Israel is the best playground,” Huber told the website CTech in a […]
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