EU politics
DW: Europe is testing a “sound cannon” to be used against refugees.
Where is this going to end?
Month: June 2021
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Munchau: Clean and green vs belt and road
Once again another questionable capitalist project with a green label Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Big Pharma’s lobbying firepower in Brussels: at least €36 million a year (and likely far more)
Big Pharma is currently waging a fierce lobbying battle to protect its monopoly patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. While Corporate Europe Observatory broadly outlines the sector’s lobby spending, this is likely to be […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project – When platforms co-opt gig workers to their cause: Understanding Spain’s anti-labour movement of riders
Podcast with José Domingo Roselló of the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) The Gig Economy Project, led by Ben Wray, was initiated by BRAVE NEW EUROPE enabling us to provide analysis, updates, ideas, and reports […]
Corruption
Patrick Cockburn – From the Somme to COVID, the Deadly Toll of Bad Leadership
A similar tale could be told of most European nations and many worldwide Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso) Cross-posted from Counterpunch National Covid Memorial Wall. Photograph Source: […]
Climate Crisis
Almuth Ernsting – The IEA’s New Net Zero ‘Roadmap’ is Dangerously Reliant on Destructive Bioenergy
The influential agency is also wildly underestimating the amount of bioenergy currently in production Almuth Ernsting is Co-director of Biofuelwatch’s Global Forest Coalition in Europe and North America Cross-posted from DeSmog UK The International Energy […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – EU shot at tax transparency rattles multinationals’ woodwork but fails to score
Once again just an incremental step by the EU. We are still far from tax justice. The Tax Justice Network is an independent international network whose core mission is to ‘change the weather’ on a […]
Economics
eKathimerini – Greece: Just 10% of hotels have opened since mid-May
Tour operators have been pressing for ever lower prices and their flights have been arriving with few passengers on board. Read here