Eastern Europe
This is Progress? Electoral Shocks, Catalunya And The Union
By John Weeks
30 October 2017
False Optimism from Brussels
On September 13 in Strasbourg, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker delivered his annual “state...
Czech tycoon Babis to be named prime minister but may struggle...
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech President Milos Zeman said on Sunday he would name Andrej Babis prime minister, but the tycoon leader of the anti-establishment...
Washington and Brussels: Running in Reverse (*) | By James...
The growth of authoritarian solutions in Washington and Brussels in response to self-induced political and economic decline has led to the imposition of sanctions...
How Western Capital Colonized Eastern Europe
Populist politicians are too late with their nationalist messages.
byLeonid Bershidsky
12/9/2017
Yet another Eastern European country is about to get a populist, anti-immigration, euroskeptic government: Billionaire...
It is imperative to construct a 5th International of workers and...
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For the last thirty years the world system has undergone an extreme centralization of power in all its dimensions, local and international, economic and...
L’ indispensable construction d’ une 5eme Internationale des travailleurs et de...
SAMIR AMIN
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Le système en place depuis une trentaine d’années est caractérisé par l’extrême centralisation du pouvoir dans toutes ses dimensions, locales et internationales, économiques,...
Poland may be stripped of EU voting rights over judicial independence
The EU is on the brink of taking the nuclear option of stripping Poland of its voting rights in Brussels in response to plans...
Sofia Club Declaration
“SOFIA” CLUB (All-European Initiative)
DECLARATION - 29.05.2017
Important tectonic changes are happening in Western societies. Those changes reveal fundamental change in the instinctive perception of today’s...
Brexit: Divorce by mutual consent or fight?
by Giullietto Chieza
According to Tomas Prouza - state secretary for EU Affairs in Prague - “There is a real danger that British politics, with...
Public Strategic Investments Instead of EFSI 2.0
The EU Commission under Jean-Claude Juncker is proposing an extension of EFSI, the European Fund for Strategic Investments. Instead of terminating in 2018, it would run until 2020. The public funds and EU guarantees would be topped up from 21 billion euros to 33.5 billion. In this way, the intention is to mobilise 500 billion euros in investment capital instead of 315 billion as originally planned. This sounds like a lot of money, but on closer inspection it shrinks away rapidly.