Alexandra Gerasimcikova works as a project manager on energy, trade, and climate at the Brussels office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Emmanuel Macron celebrated a new EU deal to reduce Chinese car imports as a blow against “unfair competition.” What really troubles European leaders is that China has successfully disciplined its capitalists — something Europe is unwilling to attempt.
Europe’s steel firms are increasingly unprofitable, and rising energy prices are making things even worse. Public ownership is vital to ensure conversion to green production while maintaining jobs.
European states have armed Israel through almost two years of genocide in Gaza. While the European Union’s trade deal with Israel is meant to be conditional on human rights, in practice EU leaders have turned a blind eye to its crimes.
The European Investment Bank has an over half-trillion-euro balance sheet — and real power to invest in the green transition. But far from pursuing its public mandate, it’s devoting public resources to propping up the continent’s largest companies.
Responding to the Inflation Reduction Act, the EU has unveiled its own green industrial plan. It has little to do with real decarbonization — but hands public money to big business, fueling a global race among “clean-tech” oligopolies.