What do you think the UK government should be spending its international aid budget on? Vaccines? Dealing with climate change? Helping countries close tax loopholes? I’m guessing you didn’t say profit-making private schools. But unfortunately, that’s exactly what it has been doing.
Austerity
IMF internal watchdog condemns the institution’s mishandling of Greece “rescue”
Here two articles concerning the report by the internal auditor of the IMF concerning its disastrous handling of Greece´s “financial rescue” Read here (easier to read) and here (better analysis)
Corruption
Romania Insider.com: Romania’s ruling party leader will accelerate criminal code changes after new conviction
So we have the Romanian Social Democrats and Liberal parties, both members of their corresponding groups in the EU Parliament, changing the laws to exonerate themselves of corruption. This is what the EU political elite […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: The G-7 and the intellectual colonialism of the West
So that was G-7, the summit par excellence, especially if you believe the media hype in the small countries that were represented there – with the seemingly big ones (you can find the extremely thin […]
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