In the EU there are apparently laws that do not apply for politicians, especially when it is a question of their bank accounts.
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Economics
Jonathan Portes vs Bill Mitchell – Are tax rises now inescapable?
Post-Covid, are taxes hikes essential to fund the future? Or should we abandon “deficit fetishism” and spend our way to prosperity? Read here Mural by Megan Wilson. Photo: victorgrigas / Wikimedia Commons
EU politics
The Guardian: Belgian police fire water cannon at fuel price protesters
Is this possibly morphing into an anti-neoliberal, anti-austerity, or anti-EU movement? Whatever, a very interesting development. Also see ” Oliver Davis – Gilets jaunes: why the French working poor are demanding Emmanuel Macron’s resignation” Click here […]
EU politics
Michael Roberts – Greece: on parole
Today Greece officially came out of the strait jacket of the so-called Troika bailout programme. Outside of Syriza, probably no one in Greece will be celebrating Read here
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