This is well and truly a milestone. Interesting are the two nations that abstained. Britain, because it is scheduled to leave the EU and does this on principle and Germany because of its endemic corporate crime. Germany does not have a whistle-blower law. That was very convenient during the diesel scandal. This is unfortunately only in German, but here is an intervention by Germany against the law: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/parlements_nationaux/com/2018/0218/DE_BUNDESRAT_CONT1-COM(2018)0218_DE.pdf
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Low US unemployment does not negate the conclusion that the US economy is now in recession
A healthy society cannot have millions of people of working age permanently on disability support because Covid has rendered them unable to work. Read Here Photo by Steelcase via Wikimedia Commons
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The current inflationary period is not remotely like the 1970s
The problem is that central bankers keep referring to wage-price spirals and expectations to justify their decisions to hike rates. The reality is that those justifications are just smokescreens and there is no justification for […]
EU politics
Red Pepper: Why I’m on McStrike: ‘£10 an hour would change our lives’
Joshua Khan, 18, explains why he’s joining today’s McStrike and shares his experiences of working at his local branch in Watford Read here
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