Ireland’s Fig Leaf
Four months after a historic general election saw Ireland’s right-wing duopoly defeated, the Green Party has decided to return them to office – on a programme that will do nothing to solve the country’s deep inequalities.
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Emma Clancy
Emma Clancy is an economist specialising in tax justice, eurozone economic policy and feminist economics. She is an advisor to the European United Left (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament.
Europe’s Sticking Plaster
The European Union’s coronavirus recovery fund has been hailed as a ‘Hamilton moment’ – but in reality it falls far short of the intervention needed to prevent the continent’s core and periphery splitting apart.
The Eurozone’s Coronavirus Debt Crisis
At last night’s Eurogroup meeting, southern states asked for solidarity in the midst of a horrific pandemic and had the door slammed in their faces. The long-term consequences for the EU could be profound.