Corruption
Bloomberg: France, Germany Reach Compromise on Watered-Down Technology Tax
And even this will probably not be enacted into law. As usual the nationalist Germans have only one concern: protecting German companies. Read here
Month: December 2018
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Germany, France, Italy: How history forms the future – Part 1
In Germany the public image of the European crisis is rooted in prejudice. It is therefore necessary to clarify once again using the latest data what is really at stake and how the “great divergence” […]
Climate Crisis
Danny Dorling – Geography and Climate Breakdown
“When I was a schoolboy physical geographers taught me that the next ice age was coming. It was coming imminently they said. When I was at university they used to climb mountains to measure glacier […]
EU politics
Christophe Guilluy: France is deeply fractured. Gilets jaunes are just a symptom
Nothing really new here, but it does document that French intellectuals are entering the 21st century. Anti-establishment is no longer synonymous with communism and fascism. Read here
Uncategorized
Bill Mitchell: The Interantional Monetary Fund hitman
Despite all the reports by economists that the IMF has learnt from its mistakes in Greece, this appears to be far from the truth. Read here
Economics
Daniela Gabor: Why Shadow Banking Is Bigger Than Ever
Despite nearly destroying the global economy in 2008, the shadow banking revolution marches on. Read here
Climate Crisis
Unearthed: Trade group including Facebook, Google to ‘oppose’ EU climate efforts
Leaked document details BusinessEurope’s campaign to undermine EU attempts to cut climate emissions Read here
Austerity
A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past by Pavlos Roufos
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Together with the European Union refugee policy, the EU’s handling of the Greek crisis is the other great disgrace that has scarred its history – our history – in […]
Uncategorized
Chris Bambery – Catalonia: “We are in jail for defending democratic values.”
On 1 December Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Turull went on hunger strike to protest against the Spanish Constitutional Court blocking their access to European justice. Chris Bambery visited Jordi Cuixart in prison this week. For […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – Coal is king at UN climate talks in Poland
Next week, countries will gather in Katowice, Poland, for the latest round of UN climate negotiations, known as COP24. Their plan is to try to agree on how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, […]