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EU budget vote: Miliband shows inner steel
This week’s defeat for the government in the Commons vote over the EU budget was the result of a cynical but brilliantly played manoeuvre by Ed Miliband, showing why we are lucky that we have Ed and...
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Europe needs a citizens’ revolution, declare Lafontaine and Mélenchon
The following declaration was yesterday issued by Oskar Lafontaine, who has previously been German finance minister, chair of the SPD and co-chair of Die Linke (Left Party), and Jean Luc Mélenchon, the...
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Ed Miliband on Europe
Ed Miliband’s One Nation in Europe speech this week at the CBI conference formally marks an interesting shift in Labour Party positioning on the EU. I say interesting because for too long Labour has...
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A parliament fit for purpose?
A month ago the Government was defeated in a vote on the floor of the House of Commons on a very important issue – the question of the level of the EU budget. The Government whips strained every muscle...
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Ed Miliband’s brave decisions: Europe is the latest
Ed Miliband is constantly under-estimated. He is not as charismatic as Blair, but he is principled in a way that Blair was not, and in politics that is priceless. He is also brave while Blair was not....
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Progress: the fixers attack the “fixing”
Once again the Blairites are attacking Ed Miliband and Labour’s new direction. No sooner had David Miliband announced his departure from British politics than Blair, Mandelson, Milburn and other...
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EU Referendum is really about divisions within Tory/UKIP camp
The issue of Europe certainly makes stange bedfellows, and the cockles of Nigel Farage’s heart will have been warmed by Bob Crow’s statement yesterday: RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said: RMT’s...
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Tories are having a hissy fit, but what’s Labour’s view on Europe?
Today we’ll see one of the most bizarre votes that the Commons have ever seen. Here we have the PLP whipped to support the government in rejecting an amendment put down to the Queen’s Speech by the...
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How does Cameron get away with his lying pretences?
Banging his fist with the smack of firm government, Cameron warned the energy companies yesterday that those who engaged in oil price-fixing will face the “full force of the law”. Oh yeah? They must be...
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The Troika’s ‘Men in Black’ and the crime of organised money
Continuing to force states to finance themselves at high-interest rates is just a strategy to justify wage control, the privatisation of public services and, ultimately, to enslave peoples, says Juan...
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Uncle Sam, what big ears you have!
Translated from the original by François Delapierre We do not know what is more astonishing. The revelations about the spying on the European Union by the United States intelligence services? Or the...
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The German elections will not change a thing in the Eurozone
Interview with Italian economist Emiliano Brancaccio by Peter Vernizzi translated by Tom Gill As far as austerity is concerned, even after the September elections Germany will not turn the page. The...
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Democracy versus capitalism – how Greece should survive
It is difficult for us to comprehend what the Greek people have been subjected to. After the 2008 crash UK unemployment rose to 8%; in Greece it is still 26% with youth unemployment at over 50%. UK GDP...
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Tsipras versus Cameron: people versus bankers
David Cameron became the first elected politician in Europe to criticise the election of the Syriza government in Greece and was quickly followed by George Osborne. This might seem odd as Britain is...
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In the UK as in Greece do you stay with failed policies or change course?
Almost everyone, and that includes the IMF and the ECB, now admit that austerity has gone far too far and is now holding back growth. The only exception are the Germans, but even they are now losing...
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Euroland’s Utopian foundations shaken by its central bank shirking its duties
The late-night decision on 4 February by the European Central Bank to reject Greek bank collateral for monetary policy operations will, I confidently predict, precipitate not just a run on Greek banks;...
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The costs and benefits of Grexit
by Emiliano Brancaccio and Gennaro Zezza – translated from Italian by Tom Gill You cannot say that between 2010 and 2014, Greece has not “done their homework” assigned by the Troika. The tax burden has...
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Five questions from Costas Lapavitsas to Syriza’s leadership on their...
This is a translation of a blog by Costas Lapavitsas who was Professor of Economics at London’s SOAS until he was elected as a Syriza MP this year. He is known as a Eurosceptic critic of the more...
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The money exists for investment in Greece
The fraught negotiations between the new Greek government and representatives of the EU institutions are likely to be prolonged. They have centred to date on Syriza’s efforts to find room to alleviate...
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What’s driving Germany’s hardline stance on Greece?
By Juan Torres López* and translated from the original Spanish by Tom Gill The media and the centres of economic and political power in Europe try to make us believe that the difficulties in reaching...
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