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The ECB acknowledges the impact of increased military expenditure on debt: higher defence spending needs will strain government finances
13 November 2025 - by Fátima Martín
The European Central Bank (ECB) acknowledged the impact of increased military expenditure by European Union (EU) member states on debt, interest rates, and public finances. It even echoes plans to reallocate to defence funds currently earmarked (…) -
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Catherine Connolly wins: An historic victory for the left
8 November 2025 - by Paul Murphy
Catherine Connolly’s resounding victory in the Presidential election is a watershed moment. It is the first time that the left has won a majority of votes in a national election. This was not a narrow victory either; Catherine won the largest (…) -
Europe: For a different economic policy in response to the far right and Trump’s offensive
5 November 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Antoine Larrache
Antoine Larrache: Could you provide an overview of the European Union’s economic situation in comparison to the global market? Éric Toussaint: The countries of the European Union, including the United Kingdom, are currently facing significant (…) -
Series: Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens (Part 13)
A critical review of the critical reviews of the book ’Adults in the Room’ by Yanis Varoufakis (Part 13)
25 July 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
We continue our series on Greece ten years after the first Syriza government took office in 2015. Below is an article by Éric Toussaint on different interpretations of the left-wing government’s failure, based on the account presented by Yanis (…) -
“America First” and the Great Upheaval in International Relations
14 March 2025 - by Gilbert Achcar
The “America First” logic, adopted by the US neofascist movement known as MAGA, may seem rational to those who are not familiar with the economic history of international relations. According to Trump and his acolytes, America has spent huge sums (…) -
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(Neo)colonial Offensive in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Solidarity with the people of Congo!
7 March 2025 - by CETIM
In line with its long-standing struggle against (neo)colonialism and for the liberation of peoples throughout the world from the shackles of oppression, CETIM expresses its solidarity with the Congolese people, who are facing an offensive by (…) -
Frontex: Who watches the watchman?
8 February 2025 - by Fernanda Gadea
At the CADTM South Asia workshop in Colombo, held from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February, Fernanda Gadea denounced Fortress Europe and its Frontex system. The policies pursued are increasingly inhumane, in line with the rise of far-right (…) -
Ukraine’s Debt: an instrument of pressure and spoliation in the hands of creditors
16 January 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In the present article the author focuses on Ukraine’s debt since the 1990s and more particularly in the years after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. It provides answers to several questions. Who are Ukraine’s creditors? How much are (…) -
Don’t repeat the mistakes of the ’30s
Take Trump and Musk’s threats very seriously!
15 January 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
While Trump multiplies his warmongering declarations against Panama, Greenland, Canada or the Palestinians, chancelleries and the international media limit themselves to talking about the...tactical maneuvers of the new American president. And (…) -
Ireland election: its economic model under threat?
29 November 2024 - by Michael Roberts
The Repubic of Ireland (this excludes the northern Ireland enclave which is still part of Britain) holds a general election today. Ireland has just 5m people and is part of the European Union and the Eurozone, contributing just 1% of EU27 and 3% (…) -
CADTM International Council | Day 3 | Strategic considerations and the political and economic situation in Europe
7 November 2024 - by CADTM International, Maxime Perriot
The third and final day of the CADTM International Council was marked by strategic discussions on the future and a presentation of the political, economic and social context in Europe. In Europe: Economic crisis and rise of the far right Éric (…) -
Version 2.0: Europe is moving to the Right and far Right
30 July 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
In light of the new distribution of seats among the legislative groups in the European Parliament, we are publishing version 2.0 of an article first published in June 2024. This new version has been greatly augmented and updated due to the many (…) -
Europe is turning black and brown
28 June 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
How should we interpret the results of the EU parliamentary elections? In Croatia the voter turnout was only 21.35% The first observation: in the EU elections held in all 27 member countries between 6 and 9 June 2024, voter turnout was once (…) -
Dark clouds over Europe with a few sunny patches
22 June 2024 - by Eric Toussaint, Mario Hernandez
We are publishing here a transcript of an interview with Éric Toussaint by journalist and publisher Mario Hernandez for the radio programme “Metropolis”, broadcast on June 13, 2024 on Radio del Pueblo (People’s Radio), AM 830, in the city of (…) -
The Pact on Migration and Asylum: another step forward for necropolitics in Europe
18 June 2024 - by Emmanuelle Carton
Introduction The adoption of the new Pact on Migration and Asylum by the twenty-seven EU member States creates a brutal process of selection determining who will be accepted and who will be rejected Migratory policies in Europe in this year (…) -
The Drums of War are Banging in Europe
6 June 2024 - by Eric Toussaint, Paul Murphy, Miguel Urbán Crespo
These weeks see the end of the term for an ineffectual European legislature which served during the worst pandemic of this century, during Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and with it, the outbreak of a war on European soil that evokes the (…) -
ECSA 26 to 28 April 2024
The CADTM will stand up for a social, ecological, feminist and antiracist Europe in Marseilles
During the last weekend of April, activists from all over the continent will meet in Marseilles to reconquer our common spaces and stand up for a social, feminist, antiracist, ecological, pacific and democratic Europe. Let us make sure that this (…) -
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Bitcoin 24
16 April 2024 - by Michael Roberts
Last week, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He ran the highly successful FTX bitcoin hedge fund that supposedly made millions for his clients. But Friedman was exposed and convicted of stealing $8 billion from his FTX (…) -
For a Europe of the peoples against the EU fortress of capitalism
26 March 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
The origin of the European Union is the ECSC – the European Coal and Steel Community or “Common Market.” The European Union was built on the idea of the primacy of the capitalist market and industrial production in the interest of big capital, (…) -
More than 200 civil society organisations demand the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement
19 March 2024 - by CADTM International, Collective
The CADTM and over 200 civil society organisations are calling on European Union (EU) decision-makers to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement without delay, in light of the human rights violations committed by the State of Israel. (…) -
Peasant mobilisations in Europe
6 February 2024 - by CETIM
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, January 1st, 2024 – Neoliberal elites want rural populations to pay for the crisis and the “energy transition”. CETIM expresses its solidarity with the mobilisations of peasant organisations over the past weeks in (…) -
Bank taxes in the EU: exceptional, temporary and far less than the €6 trillion bank bailout to be paid by the state budget
10 January 2024 - by Fátima Martín
Exceptional, temporary, special are some of the adjectives used by European authorities about bank taxes in the EU, taxes that have already been implemented in some twelve European countries. What is not said is that the collected amount is far (…) -
Should we cancel national debt owned by the ECB ?
3 October 2023 - by Matthieu Bordenave
In a time when nations are seeking methods to fund the COP26 objectives and revive the economy that has been impacted by the 2008 financial crisis and the re- cent COVID-19 crisis, the issue of national debt resurfaces. The levels of private and (…) -
Frying in France
18 July 2023 - by Michael Roberts
As I fry in record temperatures in the south of France, the concept of a short sunny vacation away from the vagaries of British weather has evaporated. The world endured the hottest week ever recorded between 3-10 July this year. And (…) -
European Commission proposal on new GMOs favours biopiracy over rights of farmers and citizens
6 July 2023 - by La Via Campesina
On July 5, the European Commission presented its proposal to create a new regulatory framework for certain GMOs. This proposal gives centre stage to biopiracy and the privatization of all seeds by patent-holding companies, to the detriment of (…)
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