Last Sunday Michael Burke had an article in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the European Banking Association’s stress tests and the current Eurozone debt crisis. Michael argues that the spending cuts imposed on “bailed out” economies are being imposed as a mechanism to save European banks, and the conditions around the paying of those [...]

Yes, we got a pat on the head. Yes, as Stephen Kinsella put it, there was a ‘nothing to see here, keep moving,’ quality to the EU-IMF’s performance report. And, yes, the IMF is forecasting that Ireland, under the current programme, won’t repair its finances by 2015, 2016 or potentially [...]

As Europe’s debt crisis intensifies again an interesting international aspect is the policy choices this poses for China.
It is a further sign of the growing international effect of China’s economic strength that it had already become part of the discussion on how to resolve Greece’s specific debt crisis - which is [...]

See also, CEO’s new report published on the 27th of June, Europe’s Resources Grab.

The great majority of serious economic commentators know that the ‘bailout’ package just agreed between the EU and Greece is going to fail. That in the end Greece will be forced into partial default worsening the terms for its creditors. This will, of course, be politely termed ‘rescheduling’, ‘reprofiling’ [...]

A special supplement of Socialist Voice dealing with debt question in Greece, Spain, Portugal and here at home is now available.  In the supplement we posed a series of questions to each of the four party’s and we have printed their replies.
We wanted to to give Irish workers an opportunity to read and understand the [...]

Let me recap on what I think is the effectiveness of the idea of Real Democracy Now / Democracia Real Ya element of the 15-M movement. When it works, it engages people as citizens - but not merely as formally constituted political subjects but also as the primary constituents of society- and enables them to develop [...]

Michael Burke dismantles some Greek myths repeated by keen representatives of the City, like Boris Johnson in a recent piece on the Guardian’s Comment is Free:
Those about Greek workers….
“Although German tabloids such as Bild daily spew out nonsense about the work-shy Greeks, the opposite is the case. Greek workers have the greatest work pressures of [...]

Conor McCabe has a column in thejournal.ie on Ireland’s corporation tax at the moment. Seems to be getting a fair bit of attention.
ON 23 NOVEMBER 2010 the international news agency, Bloomberg, asked the president of European Markets at Cisco Systems, Chris Dedicoat, for his opinion on Ireland’s corporation tax regime. This was in response to [...]

As many are no doubt aware this Sunday will see demonstrations in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick in solidarity with the Real Democracy Now movement across Europe. June 19th or J19 is the day that the people of Europe will demand that the Euro Pact is not implemented. They say that the Euro Pact, [...]