In the first of three reports on tax evasion in Europe EU-OCS explores France’s record fine against Swiss banking giant UBS in what the court called a case of fraud of ‘exceptional magnitude.’
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Sustainability
The Guardian: Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
At least Monsanto, Bayer and the other multinational pesticide and GMO seed producers are still earning billions. Like Peter Thiel, those making the profits are probably buying estates in New Zealand, where they can go when the environmental […]
Economics
Des Freedman: Lecturers are fed up with being the big losers in the higher education market
What is described in this piece is symptomatic for the whole of Europe. Our universities are destined to become commodities in service of neo-liberalism. Let us not forget that education is what made European culture […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: What is an international imbalance?
In the Financial Times, Martin Wolf noted a few days ago that imbalances in international trade are back on the political agenda. Although Wolf reaches entirely reasonable conclusions regarding mercantilism, he nevertheless states that it is nonsense […]
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