The Provisional University, an activist research and autonomous education project based in Dublin is posting a series of articles on the Mortgage Holders Platform (Platforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, or PAH), a Spanish movement…
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Spain’s MoU Dealing with the Symptom and Not the Cause
The Spanish newspaper El Pais has a story today on a version of Spain’s rescue package for the banks which has only been made available in Germany and the Netherlands but not in Spain. In…
It is now official: The Eurozone’s monetary transmission system is broken
Very important blog post here from Yanis, so I thought I’d re-post it. Under normal conditions, the interest rates that you and I must pay on a home loan, a car loan, our credit card,…
Why can’t you just all be a little more German? | Sebastian Dullien
Why can’t you just all be a little more German? | Sebastian Dullien We are often told that countries like Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain should be more like Germany. After all, their fiscal prudence…
Ireland and the Financial Transactions Tax
The issue of an EU-wide financial transactions (aka Robin Hood) tax and Ireland’s potential participation (or lack of) has been in the news again recently. A tax of 0.1% on shares and bonds and a…
Ireland Outside of the Euro | Public Meeting @Connolly Books Sat 14th of July
Ann Cahill has plenty of sensible things to say about the Financial Transaction Tax
Ann Cahill has plenty of sensible things to say about the Financial Transaction Tax The fact that the tax will be based on the place that the trade is done means that if a trade…
Greece: The Chorus is Still Deliberating
Originally published in Cuarto Poder, Monday 18th June, in the aftermath of the Greek elections. Juan Carlos Monedero is Professor of Political Sciences and Administration at the Complutense University of Madrid. In Smiley’s People, the…
Anatole Kaletsky | Can the rest of Europe stand up to Germany?
Anatole Kaletsky | Can the rest of Europe stand up to Germany? Merkel doubtless believes that she is helping Europe when she maternally instructs the Greeks, Italians and Spaniards to “do their homework” and so…
To Get Out of its Economic Crisis Europe Needs to Learn from China
Four years into the international financial crisis, it is clear that the economic policies followed in Europe to deal with it have failed to do so. For a long time, there was a refusal to…
Various Spanish Authors: Why Support Syriza in the Greek Elections of the 17th of June?
On the website La Revuelta de Las Neuronas, various authors based in Spain have published their reasons for supporting Syriza in the forthcoming Greek elections this Sunday. Their contributions are translated below. JOSÉ LUÍS CARRETERO: To…
End the dictatorship of fear! Support the Greek people on Bloomsday
End The Dictatorship of Fear! Support the Greek People on Bloomsday The Spire, O’Connell Street, 1pm. “God, Kinch, if you and I could only work together we might do something for the island. Hellenise it”…
The ‘bailout’ or the ‘loan’: a veritable looting – at gunpoint
This is a translation of a piece from John Brown’s blog on the Spanish bank bailout. Thanks to John for allowing us to publish it here. A cursory analysis of the general budgets of the…
Down Down Down We Go
The debate is falling even deeper down the rabbit-hole. We’ve been promised a bank-debt deal (if only the ECB and the German Christian Democrats, CDU, would play in our sandbox) and stimulus through European funds…
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