European integration

February 16, 202 The Commission proudly shows off its new armoury. To obtain financial support from the Recovery and Resilience Facility, Member States must implement...

The real source of neoliberalism in Europe is neither technocracy nor hegemony but a problem specific to the continent: intergovernmentalism By Nicholas Mulder On December 18,...

By Wolfgang Streeck November 2018 Abstrac tEuropean social policy changed with the evolution of European and global capitalism, the scope and shape of European-level international institutions, the...

By Alex Lantier 16 May 2019 On May 1, the US Department of Defense sent a letter to the European Union warning that plans for an...

Note from the author: As friends have quickly pointed out, the situation is even worse than described here. Quarterly reviews by the troika will...

The weight has fallen on those least able to survive, and when their own suffering was aggravated by the desperate plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees, and now millions, little help was given. What we have seen is the global market system, and especially the EU, lend people money to buy things and then strangle their hopes and futures when they cannot repay. What we now have is the biggest debtor's prison in European history.

By Steffen Stierle  Peace, prosperity and democracy. For decades, these promises were used to win large majorities in favour of European integration, including the introduction...