Corruption
euobserver: Centre-right MEPs want transparency vote to be secret
That is transparency à la EU. What a farce. The EU poltical class seems very busy subverting democracy these days (Read here and here) Read here
Year: 2019
Corruption
Sven Giegold: Taxation: EU-Commission is putting up a smokescreen
The EU Commission’s proposal on qualified majority voting on tax is a trick, to achieve the opposite end (and to protect the tax havens, like Juncker’s Luxembourg). The EU poltical class seems very busy subverting […]
Corruption
EcoWatch: EU Approval of Glyphosate Based on Review That Plagiarized Monsanto Studies
This is something the German government does often at the EU. It is called Regulatory Capture. It shows how confident the German government is that its interests will be followed unquestioned by an obedient EU. […]
Climate Crisis
Treehugger: This professor just got arrested for making climate change graffiti
Governments aren’t paying attention to scientific research, but maybe crime will get people’s attention. Read here
EU politics
Politico: Greece faces €200M fine for failing to stop Chinese fraud network
We are seeing the break down of law as German imposed austerity drives nations to seek whatever revenue they can find. Passports and visas are sold, money is laundered, taxes can be avoided, import frauds […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Germany: From amber to red?
Today’s news that the German economy, the powerhouse of Europe, had narrowly avoided a ‘technical recession’ in the second half of 2018 is another red light flashing for the world economy. Michael Roberts – Economist […]
Climate Crisis
Chris Smith – Immediate phase out of fossil fuels could keep warming below 1.5°C
Christian Mueller / shutterstock Chris Smith, University of Leeds Despite some positive climate action, new fossil fuel infrastructure is still being built and deployed. Dozens of new coal power plants are currently planned or under […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Why we Regularly Witness Financial Debt Crises due to Asset Price Inflation
Steve covers why the Neoclassical model of banking known as “Loanable Funds” is a dangerously misleading caricature of actual banking, why credit has a crucial role in macroeconomics, and why savings is a sensible activity […]
EU politics
Thomas Piketty: 1789, the return of the debt
One of the ideas raised by the yellow vests is the possibility of a referendum on the cancellation of the public debt. For some, this type of proposal, already heard in Italy, demonstrates the extent […]
Climate Crisis
Thomas Fazi – Concepts for a modern economic policy
Talk by Thomas Fazi talk about the failures of European economic policy making and possible ways out of it.