Navigate
Welcome to Europe Watch,
Here is accumulated diverse content regarding Europe and countries in Europe. You can also use the search facility to find material bearing on specific countries.
If you have ideas for improving this place page, please let us know.
Thank You.
Latest Europe
-
Hallinan: These Are the Elections That Will Decide Europe’s Fate
While France teeters on the brink of the far right, left parties elsewhere are showing surprising strength
-
Cole: Trump fights with Germany, NATO, EU, Britain…
After Trump falsely accused President Obama of having him wiretapped...
-
Reyes: Lessons from Barcelona en Comú on how to Take Back Control
After 20 months in charge of Barcelona, here are eight things we have learned from Ada Colau and Barcelona en Comú
-
Halimi: Why Europe Fails to Learn
Europe’s peoples reject free trade, yet the European parliament has just approved a new free trade agreement
-
de Sousa Santos: Europe must go back to the school of the world. As a student
The South outside Europe has been viewed in a grossly reductionist manner since the 15th century
-
Anderson: Why the system will still win
Brexit, Trump’s win, Europe’s populist movements: the West is protesting, from the left and the right, against the neoliberal, globalist orthodoxies of the past 40 years.
-
Greenwald: The New Yorker’s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia
Using Russia – yet again – to whitewash our own sins and systemic failures is bad enough. Let’s just hope it doesn’t lead the two countries back into a protracted and devastating Cold War or, worse still, direct military confrontation
-
Contributors: Ten Proposals to Beat the European Union
A collective document from across the European left on how to challenge the EU’s stranglehold on economic and social justice
-
Porter: How ‘New Cold Warriors’ Cornered Trump
The U.S. intelligence community’s extraordinary campaign of leaks claiming improper ties between President Trump’s team and Russia seeks to ensure a lucrative New Cold War by blocking détente
-
Lakey: Inequality is the real backstory to Sweden’s riots
What’s changed is that Sweden has been retreating in recent decades from its earlier commitment to economic equality
-
Fisk: Le Pen has found out that Lebanese Christians aren’t that fond of her
The National Front leader thought that Lebanon, burdened with a million Syrian refugees, should send them home as soon as the war is over. She clearly did not know that tens of thousands of Lebanese are actually related to Syrians
-
Delclos: We want to welcome! Barcelona demands open borders for refugees
Barcelona wants to welcome refugees. Only a radical movement can substantiate the city’s demands.
-
Cole: Trump invents Sweden Terror Attack, Lies about Immigrant Crime
Trump made up another alleged terrorist attack at his rally...
-
Elliot-Cooper: The Dog-Whistle Racism of the Neoliberal State
As a political moment defined by Brexit and Trump compounds the neoliberal racial violence already underpinning these two nations, coordinated resistance has never been more urgent
-
Wallerstein: The Absolutely Unpredictable French Presidential Election
As the economic turmoil continues to spread, the idea that one can win as a leftist may again become legitimate
-
Polychroniou: Greece Under Continuous Siege: Syriza’s Disastrous Political Stance
The Greek crisis has its actual origins in two directly related developments: first, in the internal dynamics of Greek political culture; and second, in the fact that Greece was ill-equipped to join the euro when it did
-
Trumbo Vila: Report from the second Citizen’s Assembly of Podemos
The mandate from the Podemos Assembly is to go forwards in unity and with humility
-
Resistance: World politics after Trump and Brexit
There will be no end of crisis and reaction without the building of a radical, anti-capitalist alternative in the United States and around the world
-
Muehlebach: The Irish water insurgency: no more blood from these stones
After the government tried to privatize and raise the costs of water, the Irish drew a line: “they are not going to draw any more blood from those stones.”
ZMag Europe
-
Coleman-Adebayo: “Negroes Need Not Apply:” The EU-Africa Malta Conference
Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, offers the solution of pouring “hundreds of millions in additional aid into Africa to try to discourage hundreds of thousands of people from heading to the EU.”
-
Musto: The Threatening Advancement of the Far Right in Europe
We should mention that neo-Nazi organizations have spread in some parts of Europe. The biggest of them is Golden Dawn, which has become the third political force in Greece.
-
Glazebrook: Refugees Don’t Cause Fascism, Timmermans, You Do
Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, following recent negotiations over the so-called refugee crisis, remarked to reporters: “We have to patrol our borders better.
-
Posey: Mainstreaming Domestic Terrorism
In April 2009, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report leaked to the public entitled “Right Wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” was released within months of President Obama’s inauguration, sketching the broad strokes of a nascent white nationalist backlash
-
Rasmus: The Greek Debt Interim Agreement
Greece and Syriza have not sold out. To declare such is premature at best and counterproductive politically at worst. Yes, Greece blinked at the February 28 deadline. If it hadn’t what would have been the consequences?
-
Johnstone: Ukraine and Yugoslavia
Up to now, I have remained speechless in the face of what appears to me to be utter madness.
-
Herman: Srebrenica: The Star Witness
Book by Germinal Civikov, translated from the German by John...
Europe Video
-
Rasmus: Labor Uprising in France
Massive labor actions have been roiling France, as unions protest the policies of the nominally Socialist government
-
Cohen: Why Is The Western Media Ignoring The New Cold War?
Interview on Russia, NATO, and our mainstream media's refusal to report on the New Cold War
-
Varoufakis: Privatization, Human Rights & Capitalism
Interview on privatization, human rights, media, experience with the EU and capitalism’s ability to reform
-
Varoufakis: Massive IMF Bailouts are “Ponzi Austerity” Scheme
Negotiations between Greece and international creditors hit an impasse over the bankers’ demands for extra austerity measures
-
Varoufakis: Europe’s “Hot Spot” Refugee Registration Centers are “Concentration Camps”
Interview on the refugee crisis in Europe, and so-called hot spots that are registration centers for refugees in his country
Europe Audio
-
Rasmus: Oil Deflation, Russia’s Recession, and Ukraine Depression
Reviewing the continuing collapse of global oil prices and its effect on the emerging recession in Russia, continuing economic stagnation in Europe, and the deepening Depression in the Ukraine economy
-
Rasmus: Europe’s Continuing Epic Recession
A talk on how Europe’s ‘stop-go’ recovery and its version of an ‘Epic recession’ (i.e. short, shallow recoveries followed by economic relapses and double dip recessions) is proving worse than the USA’s experience with ‘stop-go’ recovery since 2009
-
Barrett: March for the Alternative – Peoples Assemblies
Mark Barrett shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
-
Davies: March for the Alternative – UK Uncut
Liam Davies shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March...
Europe Blogs
-
Bohmer: Thomas Herndon’s Dismantling of Study Justifying Austerity
April 20, 2013 Thomas Herndon studied economics and political...
-
Wilson: Bread Crumbs for the World: The Failure of Hunger and Church Groups to Support Farm Justice
“A little child shall lead them.” Isaiah 11:6d “In truth...
-
Wilson: Commodity Crops Vs. Vegetables? Data Slides Fix the Myth
(Authors note, 8/12/14: This blog introduced a new “Photo album”...
-
Greeman: Scrooge Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
Brussels, Chrismas Eve, 2012. (From our Special Correspondant). Reactions...
-
: England v Serbia Racism & European football
At a recent under 21 football match between Serbia and...
-
Greeman: The horrors of socialized medicine in France
I have reached a hoary age where more and more...
-
Wilson: Slides: The Dairy Crisis and the Farm Bill
The US (and beyond) dairy crisis is an enormous tragedy...
-
Hahnel: Some Quick Thoughts on Recent Greek Tragedies
The Greek economy and society have been unraveling for well...