Yellow Vests

Economic goals and the ritual of democracy We already noted the economic goal of this new model of power, namely to steamroll economic reforms, deregulate existing labour, create the large mass of a disenfranchised labour force, create a unified market of go…

Frances public auditor on Tuesday warned that the countrys debt level, which is hovering at close to 100 percent, was worrying and urged the government to control spending. Frances debt-to-GDP ratio is set to reach 98.9 percent this year, bucking the downwa…

By Servaas Storm, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Delft University of Technology. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Dutch economist Servaas Storm, co- author of a widely-read 2018 study on climate change, Why Green Growth …

Dutch economist Servaas Storm, co- author of a widely-read 2018 study on climate change, Why Green Growth is an Illusion, talks to the Institute for New Economic Thinking about where we are today. Lynn Parramore: In 2018, you and your colleague Enno Schröder…

Recession in Southern Europe. The yellow vest revolts in France. Citizen backlash in Venice, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Price wars in Germany. And dont forget about Brexit. Add it all up, and Carnival Corp has a big Europe problem. The weight of the old worlds…

Emmanuel Macron, a paradox in executive form, was sitting in his office at the Élysée Palace, eight days after the European Parliamentary elections, a loss that was really a win. He was the President of neither the right nor the left, the youngest leader of A…

Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, "Frenchness" is disappearing and being replaced by a kind balkanization of enclaves not communicating with one another.... this is not a good recipe. The more the French élites with the…

If your country can’t figure this out, what hope is there for mine? I kept wondering this as I met with Notre Affaire à Tous, one of four organizations suing the French government for failing to keep its Paris climate accord commitments. In France, unlike i…

Attempts to trigger a national referendum or RIP on plans to privatise Paris airports have thrown a spanner in the works for Emmanuel Macron. But they may also help the president deliver on a pledge to breathe new life into French democracy. In an unprecede…

Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Harriet Blair RowanSACRAMENTO, Calif. They hoisted signs warning of corporate greed, raised their fists in solidarity against government tyranny and blasted fight songs over portable speakers. As Queen’s “We Will Rock You” blared …