A review of Raymond Aron’s “Memoires” Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More 3.0 [...] The post Branko Milanović – “J’avais toujours raison” appeared first on Brave New Europe.| Brave New Europe
The West’s policy of financial rape and pillage throughout the world NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, October 23rd, 2025, and our dear friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff, are back with us. Welcome [...]| Brave New Europe
An independent Scotland would likely start life with a substantial public deficit so adopting the EU’s fiscal rules would mean austerity. William Thomson is a political economist and has worked for almost a decade in [...]| Brave New Europe
Back in October 2023, when Bluesky was a fledgling invite-only network, I set up the account @vonderleyen.bsky.social for a few reasons (and I wrote about the experiment then). First, it seemed like a reasonable bet that Bluesky would grow into viable Twitter alternative for EU politics. Second, it was better […]| Jon Worth Euroblog
In some management training course years ago I was given the book Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? by Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones. You can find a summary of it from Harvard Business Review here. Leaders, Goffee and Jones say, need vision, energy, authority, and strategic direction. And one […] The post European Commission, why should anyone be led by you? You’re not really leaders if you’re still on Twitter/X appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
Back in the autumn of last year, in a train in Freilassing, a German police officer came through the carriage and asked for everyone’s passport. “Why are you checking all the passengers on this train?” I asked him, in German. “Because we check everyone at this border” “Sorry you don’t. […] The post Germany’s complete disregard of Schengen – ethically wrong, and practically unworkable appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
This is the first time in the EU's history that it has formally opened accession negotiations with a country at war, namely Ukraine.| Politics Today
