This statement is submitted in connection with the Joint Committee’s deliberations on the European Union’s (EU) legislative proposals COM(2025)122 and COM(2025)123. Those two measures aim to increase EU member state military expenditures and weapons production. They raise multiple serious concerns regarding the merits thereof, including gravely exacerbating the existing Ukraine conflict and making a peace settlement even more difficult to achieve. They will also contribute to cementing the EU on a path of massively increased military expenditures, which will inevitably displace and diminish other forms of needed government spending owing to the fiscal constraints confronting member states. Worst of all, they could contribute to EU member states becoming directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, thereby bringing the conflict inside the EU. Consequently, Ireland should vigorously oppose the two measures as they are neither in Ireland’s national interest nor in the collective interest of the European Union.
Archive for June, 2025
The Case Against European Union Rearmament Spending: statement to the Irish Parliament re EU Proposals COM(2025)122 and COM(2025)123
Wednesday, June 18th, 2025For the record: a final word on being cancelled Post Keynesian style
Friday, June 6th, 2025(1) The Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES) committee has posted a second more detailed public statement seeking to justify my suspension. In my view, their new statement further obscures the issue and is even more misleading.
The only thing that matters is did the article (“The Ukraine war and Europe’s deepening march of folly”) which triggered my suspension violate the listserve rules?
The committee has persistently avoided that question as the article is clearly compliant, being economics related and widely published. Now, the committee invokes a history that introduces double jeopardy and may also reveal additional past wrongdoing on its part.
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