Climate Crisis
Global Witness, Corporate Europe Observatory – Piping gas into the Parliament
Rapporteur’s pro-gas views and refusal to reveal lobbying raise alarms over TEN-E revision Read here
Month: September 2021
Economics
Michael Roberts – The Fed, interest rates, and stagflation
Is there a natural rate of interest? If not, do central banks have any idea of what they are doing or simply winging it? Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and […]
Climate Crisis
Florian Skelton – Switzerland’s dead-lock on climate change mitigation
Three months ago, on 12 June, the Swiss people narrowly rejected a landmark law on climate change. Heralded as the most comprehensive bill yet, it would have however still failed to meaningfully reduce Switzerland’s greenhouse […]
EU politics
Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition by Sebastiaan Faber
Book Review by Chris Bambery The removal of General Francisco Franco’s remains, in the autumn of 2019, from the hideous mausoleum he had built for himself and the founder of Spain’s fascist party, the Falange, […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau – What happens at EU’s eastern borders?
The next step to shooting people on EU borders is closer than anyone dares to think. As usual, EU liberal-democracy is nothing more than moral posturing behind which stands a brutal neo-liberalism. Not mentioned in […]
National Politics
Ken Loach – The End of Democracy in the Labour Party
A brilliant analysis of the current situation in the Labour Party in the UK, but valid for most Social Democrat parties in the EU.
Climate Crisis
Kacper Szulecki – Norway’s “Climate Election” Is a Warning for the Rest of Europe
Following last week’s general election in Norway, the centre-right government will step down, replaced by a left-wing coalition. Climate policy was an important feature of the campaign, but if this was indeed the first “climate […]
Gig Economy
The City: NYC Set to Pass Food Delivery App Laws Securing Workers Minimum Pay, Bathrooms and More
City lawmakers are acting to aid workers in the booming multi-billion dollar app-based food delivery industry, scheduling a vote for Thursday on a landmark slate of bills intended to ensure bathroom access, minimum pay and […]
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Xi says China will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad
If true, this would be a massive step toward closing down coal. Purportedly South Korea and Japan have committed to the same this year. Now Germany (who else?) and the Czech Republic are apparently the […]
Climate Crisis
Unearthed – Meat industry pushes UN food summit to back factory farming
Leaked documents chronicle behind-the-scenes row over industry calls to boost meat-eating Unearthed is Greenpeace UK’s award-winning journalism project Cross-posted from Unearthed A coalition of meat industry associations has pushed for the upcoming UN food systems […]