Blog Archive
Archive of my political writings, including the deprecated EU-focused blog.
This section contains older posts. To view the most recent ones, refer to the main politics blog.
- On the geopolitics of the nuclear deal with Iran
- Who can change Europe?
- EU integration and "German Europe"
- Thoughts on a New Left
- New publication: Structured Text on Sovereignty, Nationhood, Statehood
- ECB reshuffle and the outlook of monetary policy
- What positive agenda for EMU reform?
- Overview of EU legislative priorities for 2018-19
- On refocusing European integration
- Against economic populism
- Thoughts on the 4th South EU Summit
- Differentiated integration and its challenges
- Why EU financial union is not enough
- About Draghi's Jackson Hole speech
- New publications (in case you missed them)
- July 12: I support #NetNeutrality
- Suggestions for the EU declaration on e-government
- New book: Dialogues on EU politics
- On the EU reflection paper about security and defence
- On the EU reflection paper about euro reform
- Thoughts on the future of EU defence
- On the EU reflection paper about globalisation
- Brexit and the choice between Parliaments or Populism with referenda
- Thoughts on the European Pillar of Social Rights
- On the new conservative narratives
- Comment on the Summit of Southern EU countries
- War in Syria: what can the EU do
- ECB independence: concept, scope, and implications
- Treaty for Euro democracy: a four-fold critique
- Open comment on the Commission's White Paper
- On the Rome Declaration
- Comment on the 60 years of European integration
- Comment on the EU strategy against Da'esh
- NATO is not enough for the EU
- Thoughts on the White Paper about the future of Europe
- Thoughts on the EPP position about EU reform
- On EU differentiated integration
- On the near future financing of the EU
- ECB independence and inflation targeting
- Thoughts on left wing populism
- What future for the euro area?
- Can European open societies deal with terrorism?
- My website's plans for 2017
- Is the European Parliament under-powered?
- On populism and saving the euro
- On Europe: federation and republic
- Is the European Union sovereign?
- New book: Essays on Sovereignty
- Democracy and the rule of law in the EU
- On the pessimism of EU integration
- European integration post-Brexit
- The content of leftist Eurofederalism
- Brexit and national democracy
- Mea culpa: back in EU politics
- Brexit and European integration
- My new book: Little Guide to the European Union
- European integration, leftism, and the nation state
- Europe's response to terrorism must be balanced
- Opinion on the EU-Turkey deal
- Announcement: Seminars on the European Union
- First thoughts on the European Border and Coast Guard Agency
- Can Europe cope with migration?
- Is nationalism compatible with European integration?
- Thoughts on the DiEM25 manifesto for Europe
- Thoughts on the UK-EU negotiations
- Can the ECB be held accountable for failure?
- Europe’s economic governance: context and reform prospects
- Comment on Europe's migration policy
- Can the EU guarantee the rule of law?
- On the flexibility of the EU Treaties
- Underpinnings of Europe's crises
- Is the European Union a republic?
- Five constitutional principles of EU law
- On the decentralisation of euro risks
- On the EU principle of conferral
- European security and the misguided war on terror
- Sovereignty and the argument against terrorism
- Can Europe defeat ISIS? Should it?
- EU’s partial integration and cross-border challenges
- Europeans against terror and false dichotomies
- Comments on euro integration and sovereignty
- Thoughts on David Cameron’s speech about Europe
- Announcement: A Handbook on the European Union
- Comment on the need for EU Treaty change
- On the European Finance Minister
- Parergon about “German power”
- EU Confederation: exchange of views with Jakub Jermář
- On the unified representation of the euro area
- Dialogue on Europe’s sovereignty mismatch
- The European Parliament is a real parliament
- About the design of the European Union
- About re:publica and the vision for Europe
- EU federalism and the German Question
- Europe’s ever closer inter-governmentalism
- Res publica and European Democracy
- On the limitations of the European Parliament
- Euro and the gradualist path to political union
- On the statelessness and flawed governance of the euro
- On Draghi’s “political centre” for the Euro
- Varoufakis is wrong about Renzi
- Is Grexit a mere bluff?
- Why not inter-governmentalism?
- Federalism, possibility, and feasibility
- Thoughts on the “Plan B” for Europe
- Europe, Euro, and Altereuropeanism
- State of European Democracy
- On the idea of a decentralised euro area
- Democratising the European Semester: an open essay for Reinventing Europe
- Confederation, federation, and the European left
- Europe needs leadership to address the refugee crisis
- Modality and European Federalism
- Five paradoxes of EU inter-governmentalism
- On Varoufakis’ ambition for “Decentralised Europeanisation”
- Greece: Why I support Lafazanis
- Comment on the victimisation of Syriza
- On the merits of European integration
- Some thoughts on euro area imbalances
- On the institutional independence of the European Central Bank
- European federation or confederation?
- On “Merkelism” and anti-German rhetoric
- Views on the future of the European integration process
- Some thoughts on the claims of Yanis Varoufakis
- European integration after the third Greek bailout
- The euro’s mindset in context
- In search of Europe’s common politics
- On Europe’s “democratic deficit”
- Normative aspects of the future European Democracy
- On left-wing euroscepticism
- On the inevitability of austerity
- On the falsity of “more Europe” as concerns Euro integration
- On the inaccurate notion of “shared sovereignty”
- Euro integration cannot proceed along its current path
- Greece and the European Union in the era of Realism
- The emergent contradiction of Europe’s inter-governmentalism
- Europe will never be the same
- The current design of the Euro is poisoning European unity
- Is European Leftism compatible with the Euro and the EMU?
- Notes on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union
- Is the Eurogroup democratic?
- Open Letter to Members of the European Parliament
- Greek referendum: Decisions in the face of radical uncertainty
- My OXI vote in the Greek referendum
- Greek referendum and the legality of Grexit
- Comments on the Greek referendum
- Greece and the EU: the bigger picture
- Euroblog relaunch
- Intelligible and Imaginary
- Enumerative and generic rules
- Philosopher kings…
- Freedom without free will (?)
- Confessions of a former libertarian
- Authorship and concatenation
- Note on Participation
- Classes, instances, differentiation
- Constitutional subject and order
- Definitions
- Primary and secondary rules
- Inheritance
- Common in the multitude
- Functions of subsets
- On Habermas’ European Democracy
- Contextuality and arbitrariness
- Meaning and referent
- On the value of justice (Ring of Gyges)
- The constitution of the case
- Between fact and credence
- Thoughts on the Paradox of Theseus
- On the interobjective aspect of politics
- On the intersubjective aspect of politics
- Comment on Correspondence
- Reflections on ontic and noetic presences
- On empirical research and its method
- For and Against Metaphilosophy
- A note on flux and constancy
- Description and specification
- A note on the abstract and the concrete
- Implicit properties in objects
- Comment on the Eurovision Presidential debate
- Descriptive and synthetic arrays
- Discernment and classification of objects
- Second note on epistemic value
- First note on epistemic value
- Second parergon to a consideration of discernibility
- Of state and superstate: a reply to Craig Willy on European ideology
- People Not States: An EU Treaty change to mark a new era of political organisation
- First parergon to a consideration of discernibility
- Knowledge by means of discernment (prolegomena to discernibility)
- On the ten modes of Skepticism
- Comments on Protagoras’ human-measure statement
- Comments on Heraclitus’ theory of universal flux
- Comment on the homogeneity of Christmas cake
- Preliminary remarks on objectivity
- Natural law qua chrēmatic: An argument for genuine autonomy
- On the conflation between pragmata and chrēmata
- Truth in the constitution of the case
- Is it possible to see that p without knowing that p?
- Critique on the inevitability of European austerity
- Update on my first philosophical work
- The concept of “Stability” in European politics
- The function of self-criticism in Ethics
- Serendipity and European integration
- A new chapter in my publishing life
- ECB policy and preliminary notes on the inter-subjectivity of monetary affairs
- Europe beyond and without federalism
- The German Constitutional Court and the inherent contradictions of the OMT
- Negation in European metapolitics (prolegomena)
- Inflation in Germany is not an automatic remedy for the periphery’s economic woes
- Critique on the ex cathedra pronouncement of Barroso that there is no eurocrisis
- The meta ta politika of Europe
- Footnotes on Jürgen Habermas’ lecture in Leuven about the European crisis
- Europe did not cause the crisis in Cyprus
- The independence of the European Central Bank and its democratic accountability on Cyprus
- Europe: A banking union to break the feedback loop between states and banks
- Doomsday scenarios: With capital controls in place, is Cyprus effectively outside the Euro?
- Cyprus: A Eurogroup deal that is painful but more just than before
- Cyprus bailout: A suboptimal and unjust agreement of the Eurogroup
- EU needs to restore credit channels towards the real economy
- Eurobills: On the joint issuance of European debt instruments
- Single Supervisory Mechanism: How it relates to the institutional morphology of the European Union
- On European meta-nationalism: A critique of the exogenous impetus to integration
- On the European identity and the nation-less democracy
- Tougher rules on Credit Rating Agencies are not enough
- The distinction between the Banking Union and the Single Supervisory Mechanism
- On the monetary policy prescriptions of Bundesbank president, Jens Weidmann
- May 2013 lead us from the Year of Citizens to the Union of Citizens
- Single Supervisory Mechanism: The basis for a Financial Union (analysis)
- The rise of technocracy: Full analysis of the Council roadmap for the completion of the EMU
- A failure of ideology not of Germany
- France’s credit downgrade, medium term borrowing costs and ‘competitiveness’
- What makes a free society: On the heteronomy of the eurocrisis
- The entropy of the Greek society
- Greek austerity: Change can only come from the Greeks not from the troika
- A European Commissioner to veto national budgets: We are being alienated from our own institutions
- Separatism and European Federalism: Two compatible tendencies
- Not all European Federalists are Progressive
- Nationalism and individual sovereignty in the case of Catalonia
- When the opposition to inane austerity is powerless
- A subjectivist analysis of the inflationary process
- A federation of nation states is a Confederation writ large
- Outright Monetary Transactions: Reasons not to be cheerful
- European complexity and democracy
- Mario Draghi and his static view of European integration
- Is the euro area facing a balance of payments crisis?
- About the ECB placing a ceiling on the bond yields of Spain and Italy
- Extending the targets of the Greek bailout programme
- Federalism, Confederalism and the European Superstate
- On the fallacies of Otmar Issing and the need for a European political union
- The euro is not irreversible – Nothing is
- A (euro)crisis of nationalism
- Has the European Central Bank lost its independence?
- ECB policy: Analysis of Mario Draghi’s speech
- Loose talk and exit of Greece from the Euro
- The European Central Bank as a painkiller not a remedy
- The free fall of Greece and the broken credit line
- The truth about Credit Rating Agencies and speculators
- Is higher inflation in Germany a way to help Greece?
- Latest EU deal is the first step to debt mutualization and federalization
- Is Merkel preventing the solution to the eurocrisis?
- The politization of football or the footballization of politics?
- Why I continue to support the euro (short comment)
- Without a banking union the euro is history
- German interest rates: That which is seen and that which is not seen
- Eurozone breakup and the doctrine of competing currencies
- The essential point of the last EU summit: Fiscal Union – Banking Union – Political Union
- Reply to Andrew Roberts on the European ‘Empire’
- Party politics in the Greek pandemonium (full analysis)
- Quo vadis Jens Weidmann?
- Greece in complete denial: The failure of the political system
- Greek elections: The debacle of austerity or of reason?
- The election of François Hollande: a chance to disrupt the Franco-German bipolarity
- EU needs to create value not jobs
- The nothingness of the “I am Hellene” (video included)
- Why I oppose inflationary policies
- Should the European Central Bank give money to states at 0% interest?
- Go home Lady Ashton, high representative of Repsol
- Money illusion as a solution to the eurocrisis?
- European identity: From metaphysical essentialism to conventionalism
- European identity: Taxation with Representation
- Rebalancing Europe: Comments on Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann
- Eurocrisis: Do not underestimate complacency
- National competitiveness and the protectionist race to the bottom
- LTRO has exacerbated systemic risk – Draghi did not reverse the crisis
- Financial Transactions Tax in Europe: Why I disagree (wonkish)
- Behind the numbers there are people
- Presidential elections in France: The far right tactics of Nicolas Sarkozy
- Capital adequacy, LTRO and artificial demand
- Structural reforms in Greece can only be done within the EU and the Euro
- On the fundamental fallacies of Euro-exit advocates
- TARGET 2 is essential – German objections are exaggerations
- What Bundesbank and Target 2 tell us about the fate of Euro countries
- Analysis – LTRO will not help the real economy but prolong speculation
- Growth in Europe – The key is to reallocate resources
- Are bailouts acts of solidarity?
- Second Greek bailout – another perverse short term fix
- The problem with Greek austerity
- Great Recession and the mechanics of a Euro Breakup (wonkish)
- Solidarity is good – But a new Greek state is Better
- Stop this anti-German madness!!!
- Is the troika punishing Greece? Why?
- A new Greece must emerge from the current existential crisis
- External and internal factors of the Greek failure
- Monolithic fiscal discipline is not a solution but a problem
- Greece will not exit the Euro – Groundless threats and speculation
- Exit of Greece from the euro is collective suicide
- Greek default and Greek debt restructuring in 2012
- About Credit Rating Agencies and the root of the crisis in Europe
- Will the euro be saved just because it has to?
- Eurocrisis: A deeply political issue of the EU
- The silence before the storm: 2011 was bad – 2012 will be worse
- Four fallacies about the role of the ECB in the crisis of the Euro
- The two mentalities that brought us into the current crisis
- A key feature of capitalism is Failure – Not stability
- About EU gradualism and why markets speculate against the Euro
- The euro will continue to deteriorate – The last summit was a failure
- ECB monetary policy does not work with a broken credit line
- About the pseudo-Fiscal Union and the actual Fiscal Control
- Does it all depend on Germany? That is what desperate people think
- The fiasco of the leveraged EFSF with IMF involvement
- Can the ECB print money at no cost? Not at all
- Cyprus is on the edge of the cliff
- Why is the eurozone unraveling after the October 26 Summit?
- ECB and democracy: The traps of debt monetization
- About the European Central Bank monetizing debts
- Merkel and Sarkozy actually propose a perfectly partitioned EU
- Democracy in Greece is sacrificed to service an odious debt
- Four points about Greek bankruptcy and European inanity
- Chaos in Europe, the G20 in Cannes and the need for constitutional changes – Interview with Thomas Colignatus
- Greek referendum is the last chance for EU to provide real solutions
- Only the ECB can be a bazooka in Europe – EFSF is a tower of cards
- European Bank recapitalizations: An imminent credit crunch
- The aftermath of the October 26 Euro Summit – No Solution
- Stricter rules are good – Stabilizing Mechanisms are much better
- The self-imposed restrictions to a solution at the EU summit
- An argument on whether we need Referenda on EU Membership
- Greece must change bottoms-up and so must its people
- The tragedy of the Greek Crisis: Economic paralysis and social unrest amid fears of implosion
- Questions and Answers on the October 23 summit for the Euro Crisis
- The current economic and political situation in the Euro Area
- About the plan for Greek debt, bank recapitalizations, bigger EFSF
- The four sources of contagion in the Euro Area
- The ECB captivity and the Italian, Spanish and Belgian prisoners
- Full analysis of the Euro Crisis
- A Plan for Europe – Interview with Thomas Colignatus (Part 2)
- A Plan for Europe – Interview with Thomas Colignatus (Part 1)
- Exit of Greece from the euro is nonsense
- Dexia zombie bank: The tip of the iceberg and the derisory stress tests
- Greece near default, EU in trouble – Six facets of the euro crisis
- Evaluation of inflation and unemployment amid the Euro Crisis
- The absurdity of splitting up the Euro in Teutonic and Latin Unions
- The crisis of the Euro is deeply Political
- Can a bigger EFSF contain the crisis? It can certainly worsen it
- Currency union vs fixed exchange rate – Greek Euro Exit
- Default and euro exit will destroy Greece
- Disorderly default, early elections and social unrest possible for Greece
- Evaluation of further draconian austerity in Greece
- Greek default: Optimal and suboptimal options – Full analysis
- Eurozone finance ministers meeting: Some comments on Geithner and the rest
- On the speculation against the Euro
- Time for a Euro-wide strategy to deal with the systemic crisis
- Report on the indecorous statement of Commissioner Guenther Oettinger
- An assessment of Greece going bankrupt on September 2011
- The fiscal discipline delusion
- The racist populism of European Commissioner Oetinger is unacceptable
- The self-defeating austerity obsession that plagues Europe
- Federalism for the future – Realism for the present
- Euro Crisis: A critical assessment of where we stand
- More on the insolvency of the European banking system
- The real reasons EU delays a solution to the Euro crisis
- The catastrophic implications of a Greek default
- Are debt ceilings the solution to the crisis as Merkel suggests? Oh no
- An evaluation of the condition of the European banking system
- Stop wasting taxpayer money – System-wide solutions are needed
- A fiscal union today is both unfeasible and a folly
- The irrationality of the EU will go down in history – Evaluating the Euro crisis
- Should Germany leave the euro and let others crash and burn?
- Questions and Answers on the Eurobond – Full analysis
- The new order in the systemic Euro crisis
- Demands for collaterals show lack of a collective spirit – This endangers the Euro
- Van Rompuy sees no recession in the EU – Sweet dreams
- Demands for collaterals are the natural result of the ill advised EFSF policies
- Full analysis of the joint Sarkozy-Merkel letter for the Eurozone
- The eurobond is the only way forward – But under what conditions?
- The catastrophic implications of Greece and Portugal exiting the euro
- European taxpayers money is sucked into black holes
- About the toxicity of the EFSF and the AAA ratings of France and Germany
- Is the crisis of the Euro leading to a Political Union? What kind of a union?
- An analysis on why ECB intervention to save Italy and Spain is a joke
- Full analysis of the G7 statement on Financial Markets
- The toxicity of the EFSF is the source of contagion
- EU officials stick their heads in the sand – Oli Rehn was the latest
- The seven classes of the Eurozone
- The myth of the new Marshall Plan
- Cyprus will soon be caught in the eye of the storm
- The four reasons calling for a political union in Europe
- Retroaction and ad hoc semi-measures will never solve the Euro crisis
- Austerity confuses virtue with vice
- The EU summit did not solve the root of the crisis
- Full analysis of the outcomes of the July 21 Summit
- Enforcing the SGP? No the EU should better abandon it
- EU summit must produce a European Solution – Not a second Greek bailout
- What is the Eurobond?
- Austerity in the EU and the fallacy of the crowding out hypothesis
- The crisis in the EU spirals because it is systemic
- EU is stuck in bureaucracy as the crisis rapidly spreads
- The dual nature of the Greek crisis
- An overview of the four dimensions of the Greek Crisis
- Systemic flaws of the Euro are the root of the debt crisis
- Market relief will be short lived over Greek debt
- Ad hoc measures can not save the EU
- Should EU threaten Greece?
- A second bailout to Greece is a waste of time and effort
- The effects of a Greek debt restructuring
- The four myths of the Indignant movement
- Can a Greek default be prevented?
- Public debt is not the real problem, Confidence is
- What if Greece goes bankrupt?
- Is the European safety mechanism a waste of time?
- The acceleration of the European Integration Process
- The theory underpinning the euro