EU’s neighbourhood policy, Russia, and the conflict in Ukraine

December 13, 2015

Here is an amended and completed version of the talk I gave at the peace conference “The EU –Neighbourhood Policy in the Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood” on 11 December 2015, at the European parliament in Brussels. The event was organised by the GUE-NGL group.

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Politics, the reality of time, and the singularity of cosmos

November 28, 2015

A review and discussion essay based on R.M. Unger & L. Smolin (2015) The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, Cambridge University Press, 543 p.

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A year since LuxLeaks and it’s still business as usual. The EU needs a fresh start in the fight against tax avoidance and evasion

November 4, 2015

On 5 November 2014, a group of international journalists publicly revealed that more than 300 multinationals had agreed secret deals – the so called ‘tax rulings’ – with the Luxembourg between 2002 and 2010 in order to slash their global tax bills. The Luxleaks scandal was born. [This article is being published in a number of newspapers across Europe, starting with Liberation and Le Soir today, with others to follow on the 5th. Please feel free to circulate further!]

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On the state of the EU/ Euro –debate in Finland

October 20, 2015

I prepared this country report as a background paper for a seminar on “Left strategies for the future of Europe following the dictates against Greece”, organized by the European Attac network in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, to be held in Paris from 23 to 25 Oct 2015. This blog version is slightly longer than the original.

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