A European Vision for Sustainability

By Christopher Stopes, Sustainable Food Trust

The referendum vote in favour of Britain leaving the EU is causing uncertainty in many areas, not least in the future direction of agricultural policy.

The European Union and the Misery of Bigness

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

Years ago, the great Austrian economist Leopold Kohr argued that overwhelming evidence from science, culture and biology all pointed to one unending truth: things improve with an unending process of division.

Why Global Capital Fears ‘Brexit’

By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Thomas Wallgren, Local Futures (ISEC)

Today, interlinked multinational banks and corporations constitute a de facto European government, determining economic activity through the ‘European market’....In other words, corporations run Europe.

We are all Greece

By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures/ISEC

The cast of heroes and villains in Greece’s ongoing battle to save its economy varies depending on who’s telling the story. 

Game theory and the King’s New Clothes

By Andrew Curry, thenextwave

So from the EU/Germany/ECB perspective, they expect Syriza to behave the way everyone else does in European negotiations, and also think that a Greek exit from the Eurozone is catastrophic for Greece but not for anyone else.

In search of European democracy

By Andrew Curry, thenextwave

The European election results were another shockwave rolling out from the 2008 financial crisis. They suggest the crisis has some way to go.