In effect, the EU has embraced a hyper-mercantilist, export-driven growth model, prioritising trade surpluses over internal economic development. This approach has come at the expense of both its own citizens, who face stagnating wages and underfunded public services, and its trading partners — most notably the United States — who have absorbed the EU’s export surpluses as part of an increasingly unbalanced global economic relationship.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon – Europe must abandon these foolish Brussels treaties
Emmanuel Macron’s vision of the continent’s future fails to address the most urgent problems facing Europeans today Read here
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An interview with Steven Forti: Two Catalonias
A lengthy but very informative interview with Steven Forti, Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Read here
EU politics
TRT World: Riot police, masked protesters clash at Paris May Day rally
This is not a very good article, but there is nothing better without a paywall. If anyone has a more interesting link, please send it to us: info@braveneweuorpe.com or donate 250 Euros (we use the […]
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