The same clean air policies that can reduce fossil fuel emissions and help rein in climate change can also add up to 5 years onto people’s lives in the most polluted regions, while globally adding more than 2 years onto lives on average.
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Corruption
Politico: EU official forced to resign over energy interests
In the EU there are apparently laws that do not apply for politicians, especially when it is a question of their bank accounts. Read here
Finance
The Irish Times: Ireland is the world’s biggest corporate ‘tax haven’, say academics
The government of Ireland insists it is not a tax haven. The EU thinks it is. So do tax NGOs. So do academics. How is it that everyone is getting this so wrong? Read here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Interest rates up, sanity down
The European Central Bank has apparently decided to force through the restrictive path it embarked on in the summer – even if it becomes clearer every day that it is wrong. Even large institutions built […]
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