Neo-liberalism can only flourish where democracy is reduced to a minimum, to folklore. The EU is neo-liberal. Thus the European Court of Justice will almost always decide against democracy.
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Economics
Thomas Piketty: The G7 legalizes the right to defraud
G7 plans to apply a minimum tax rate of 15% on the offshore profits of multinationals. Let us be clear: if we leave it at that, it is nothing more and nothing less than the […]
Climate Crisis
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg – Right wing farmers’ protests in the Netherlands
For those who are less than familiar with the intricacies of Dutch agriculture, the current wave of farmers’ protests (see DutchNews.nl: “Up to 40,000 farmers demonstrate against farm closures”, June 2022) will surely be puzzling. […]
EU politics
Investigate Europe: How a US firm pushed for EU €2.1trn pension fund
This is only a brief section of an extensive and excellent investigative report concerning the US financial services corporate giant BlackRock by Investigate Europe. Unfortunately it has never been translated into English. Here you will […]
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