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For a long time, the European Union has presented itself as a pluralistic, rights-based, open social and political space which is intrinsically oriented towards the expansion of freedoms: this is what the “European way of life” should mean. The EU has also been labelled as a “regulatory power” being able to promote rights on a global scale: in 2012, Columbia Law professor Anu Bradford coined the term “the Brussels effect” to depict the Union’s “unique power to influence global corporations and set the rules of the game”. Today, those promises are...
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A new study comparing Germany to Estonia, Spain, and Finland Germany’s education policy has faced scrutiny ever since the results of the very first PISA survey were released in 2000. The report revealed that academic success in Germany fell below the OECD average and was more strongly contingent upon a student’s socio-economic and family background than was the case in any other participating country. Since then, a series of measures has been implemented with regard to education policy, including the expansion of childcare facilities, the...
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The right to mobility must be guaranteed for all people, because mobility means social participation. Getting to work, meeting friends, going to a medical appointment, taking children to nursery, visiting a mother in need of care – all of these must be affordable, reliable, climate-friendly and stress-free. Mobility is a class issue. People with middle and low incomes are more heavily burdened by the cost of car ownership and often still have no alternative, since public transport and rail services are...
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Amidst a severe energy and cost-of-living crisis, Mapping a Public Pathway for Europe’s Energy Transition delivers a compelling critique of Europe’s failing energy system. This comprehensive study exposes how, despite public commitments to reform, the EU’s continued reliance on a liberalized, profit-driven energy market is driving up prices and jeopardizing its own climate targets. At a time when the European Commission pledges competitiveness and a green industrial future, the data presented in this study tells a very different story....
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30,000 lobbyists…and counting. The sheer number of corporate lobbyists that influence EU policy-making, and the financial firepower available to them, constitute a challenge to democracy, social rights, peace and the planet. In this book, lobbying researcher and campaigner Kenneth Haar explores how corporate representatives have shaped the institutional foundations of the EU. He examines how they inscribed their vision into its fundamental principles, constructing a “European competition state,” marginalising concern for the common good, and generating an enormous democratic...
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Read More "A Europe of Capital"