www.politico.eu/article/euro... Big Business Rules EU!

EU countries complain they can only use public cash to provide homes for low-income families — while even middle-class earners struggle to pay for shelter. The bloc's new Affordable Housing Plan aims to change that. 🔗 politi.co/3L3tm0Z

Did u factor in the %age of US GDP that is ( mis)spent on health ie 20%?

To be sure, there is a large gap in the ~level~ of GDP per capita: US GDP per capita is 35%-40% higher than in the EU But that gap is overwhelmingly due to the fact that people work fewer hours in the EU – not that Europeans are less productive

Adjusted for the difference in price level, GDP per capita has grown 70% in the US since 1990 vs. 63% in the EU27 This corresponds to an annual growth rate of 1.6% in the US vs. 1.5% in the EU. The US has been doing better post-Covid, but over the medium run no big divergence

A lot of the “eurosclerosis” discourse is based on comparing GDP in nominal US$ in Europe vs US Yesterday, the US ambassador to the EU compared Europe’s GDP per capita to that of Mississippi This makes little sense, because it ignores the higher cost of living in the US

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Disgusting anti Semitism!

The chutzpah of Marjorie Taylor Greene on.ft.com/3KKP4qw | opinion

Companies’ register could drop directors’ home addresses amid safety concerns. As a former union finance guy & CLRG member I oppose this backward move against transparency. As Noel Browne - “ Irish private enterprise – too much privacy and not enough enterprise“ www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Liam Neeson has a very particular set of skills. Molecular biology, virology, epidemiology and basic health awareness are not among them. Ffs.

The seldom-seen Dee Forbes continues to influence RTÉ as its core journalism is wound down & out! Over to Social Media www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

@rte.ie is being almost fully outsourced so that it’s super investigations are neutered. Democracy will suffer as social “media” triumphs!

Sad to see this FFG govt & bad Rte management eviserate #Rte -even outsourcing the Lotto! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

#Meta workers in Ireland on strike over pay grading & union recognition. Members of #CWU. Paralegal the work for #Covalen a contractor. Covalen is afraid of unions knowing it holds all the power when negotiating directly with individual worker!

www.socialeurope.eu/why-european.... Well Ireland’s UCD recognised diversity & heterodox economics this month!

I have to say that I never heard such nonsense before!? do you believe that only the powerful can change the world? I’ve been involved in the Irish € British anti Apartheid movement since I was 15. Sport boycotts done it!

Ireland watch out! Tech billionaires are plotting to buy land to set up empires per FT - physical homelands. They want to escape from US institutions and Democracy! Too many homeless in San Francisco has annoyed them. One“Cyberlibertarianist”is grandson of Milton Freedman, Patri, opposes democracy.

Since 1965 Anti Apartheid movements including Ireland’s fought Apartheid & eventually we closed down successfully.

Not so. We changed the regime by these actions from the 1960s on South Africa’s Apartheid regime. Took time but soon Netenyahoos oppressive regime in Israel will be shunned by all decent people who detest imperialism

Not Social Democracy!

Delighted to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Economic Science from UCD for my “contributions to economics” and to “the distinctive Irish economic model.”

3 December 1941 | A Polish prisoner, Jan Kubiak (no. 17806), was captured while trying to escape and detained in the bunker of Block 11 at Auschwitz I. He perished there on 6 February 1942. Watch a short video about Block 11: https://t.co/VBgDxkWLMa

I am totally against netenyahoos Genocide but this week park denaming will do Nothing!

People in the South will not go for unity when the cost is understood. Meanwhile we in south should help our northern friends often & regularly.

John FitzGerald: The North must deal with its economic and social failings before unity www.irishtimes.com/business/eco...

I’m totally against denaming #Herzog Park in Dublin. If we continue with de-Naming next will be all the O’Connell streets in Ireland! Why - the great Catholic Emancipator? Anti Slaver too! Because he opposed banning child labour in the British Parliament, as James Connolly pointed out.

Last night, hundreds of Amazon workers in Frankenthal, Germany, walked off the job for the first time. They defied intimidation from management – and joined trade union ver.di and the growing global movement to #MakeAmazonPay. UNI Europa stood with them on the picket lines.

#irishtimes delivery is a rip off. A soggy unreadable mess half in their green bag on wet day! Aidan Bolger is “home delivery manager”

Zara workers in 7 countries rally today! The European Works Council (EWC) of Inditex – which includes unions representing Zara workers – demands a share in the company’s profits. In September, Inditex reported a net profit of 2,791 million euros.

Make Putin’s Russia pay!

Far-right Alternative for Germany’s previous youth group was dissolved to avert a possible ban. In its place: Generation Germany, part of a wider effort to destigmatize the party and efface its extremist image. 🔗 politi.co/4ohAkNr 

And there is the 60% subsidy to tenants on the tenant purchase scheme a perverse housing privatisation scheme

Misdirection! You support privatisation of public housing with subsidies of up to 69% to those fortunate to benefit from that fiscal misdirection too?

Google is a near-$4tn monument to monopoly power on.ft.com/4oi7mNC

I was referring to small “d”democrats but the Democrats leadership stinks - look at Larry Summers! Look at the uncritical stance and facilitation of unbridled “winner takes all” globalisation they pursued.

Your anger is correct but we are democrats. Citizens are waking up slowly to the Narcissist

Maybe it’s time to pivot to China as Pissani Ferry argues particularly as it’s so heavily investing in Innovative climate products

The sooner the better for mankind

Trump is not popular in America!!

Ivana Bacik’s careless words are causing alarm among unionists www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Social Democracy's Lost Spark: When the Third Way Led Nowhere www.socialeurope.eu/social-democ...

The Irish nationalist Sinn Féin party has expelled a member over her possible link to a conspiracy to bomb a mosque — and stressed it won’t tolerate far-right racists in its ranks.

Public Service broadcasting must be supported!

Most Far Right supporters have similar DNA -hence their motivation by hatred of others. Hitler likely suffered from genetic condition that causes micropenis, according to DNA testing

Great article explaining why #BBC is under threat from Right! With its big, ridiculous mistake, the BBC played into the hands of an authoritarian liar www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...