The Guardian: French PM backs new measures to ‘protect’ protests from rioters

EU nations will do almost anything to stop the flow of refugees – except solve the reason why they are fleeing to Europe. Or maybe it’s just good old corrupt Malta on the take again. […]

Germany’s confusion about the sort of relationship it wants with China is symptomatic of an EU that hasn’t woken up to the fact that it can’t compete with Chinese manufacturing and neither can it afford […]

Oligarch watch. Fascinating article. We need to start thinking about the Transnational Network of Plunder (TNP) as the unit of analysis. Read here