The US war criminal Henry Kissinger purportedly said: “It’s ‘dangerous to be America‘s enemy, but ‘fatal’ to be its friend”. Michael Hudson is an American economist, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas [...] The post Michael Hudson – Trump’s Tariff Wars Hit Europe, Korea, and Japan appeared first on Brave New Europe.| Brave New Europe
“RTE feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza. RTE is probably hoping that Israel will have finished the genocide and ethnic cleansing by the next [...] The post Sky News: Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel is allowed to take part appeared first on Brave New Europe.| Brave New Europe
10 September 2026 The post Alex Krainer, Glenn Diesen – Economic Collapse and Civil War Fears in Europe appeared first on Brave New Europe.| Brave New Europe
Rheinmetall opens Germany’s biggest ammunition factory, aiming to catch up with the world’s leading arms makers. Berlin is set to slash welfare to finance militarisation. Demonstrators face growing repression. Read Article HERE| 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