Tag: European Union

  • DW: Coronavirus and the EU – The nation versus the union?

    EU member states are pressing ahead with unilateral measures to stop the spread of coronavirus — and the bloc is no longer sitting in the driver's seat. Cooperation looks different in an era of pandemic. A press review with Fabio De Masi

    EU member states are pressing ahead with unilateral measures to stop the spread of coronavirus — and the bloc is no longer sitting in the driver's seat. Cooperation looks different in an era of pandemic. A press review with Fabio De Masi
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    Cheque mate? EU's fight with US corporate giants

    Euranet-Video with Fabio De Masi

    Is Europe locked in a low-grade trade war with the United States? A series of decisions by EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, including a 13 billion euros fine of Apple for its Irish tax arrangements, have given this impression.

  • The EU is destroying Europe

    Fabio De Masi wrote an article on the future of the EU that was first published in German by the newspaper neues deutschland

    There’s a crisis in the EU. First Brexit, now stress with Italy’s banks. Meanwhile, former EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso sets off to work at Goldman Sachs, while his country buckles under the penalties resulting from its budget deficit, despite Portugal’s obedient implementation of the Troika’s reforms ...

  • Democracy and Popular Sovereignty instead of Neoliberal Integration and a failed Euro-System

    Appeal of the Lexit-Network

    With the implementation of the European single market and the Maastricht Treaty, European integration was established as a neoliberal project for the long run. The Stability- and Growth Pact, the fundamental freedoms of the single market and the European monetary union, among other elements, constituted a framework that has fueled austerity policies, the dismantling of workers’ rights and the welfare state and imposed privatization throughout the EU member states ...

  • Tax breaks only for the big

    The press about the impact of EU tax policy

    EUObserver, 13.06.2016 "[...] Fabio De Masi, a German MEP from the United Left who is spearheading parliament efforts to weed out big tax-avoidance schemes, said it was unfair to honest taxpayers and also bad economics. "All those profits siphoned off are not reinvested into the local economy. Besides the disastrous effects of half a decade of austerity, this is a serious drain on growth and employment," he said ...