The setbacks for centrist parties in the European elections showed that the EU’s crisis is anything but over. Yet the Left’s lack of strategy and identity has hobbled its ability to provide an alternative.
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EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and Supranational Centralization
In 1945 Karl Polanyi outlined a vision of a peacetime global state system with a political economy in which small countries could be both sovereign and democratic. The present essay reviews developments between then and […]
Corruption
DB Post: 5 Oil and gas giants spend over 250 million euros on EU lobbying, say green groups
The five biggest publicly listed oil and gas companies and trade groups representing them spent more than 250 million euros lobbying the European Union to influence climate action since 2010, environmental groups reported. Read here
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Rights for poor countries
The Covid-19 crisis, the most serious global health crisis in a century, forces us to fundamentally rethink the notion of international solidarity. Beyond the right to produce vaccines and medical equipment, it is the whole […]
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