As European neo-liberal enforcers go into meltdown (political zombies like Renzi and Rajoy are gone, Merkel and May will follow) the European political class has a new strategy: ever bigger lies. In this blog Bill Mitchell looks at the Germans European unemployment insurance proposals that aren’t.
EU politics
swissinfo.ch: FIFA retains low-tax, non-profit status despite billions
For years Andrew Jennings revealed the criminal practices of the FIFA and the Swiss authorities did nothing. He even told them where the incriminating documents were. It was the US Justice Department that finally put […]
Corruption
the shift: Pilatus Bank might be gone but Malta remains a money-laundering haven
Once again it took the intervention of the US justice authorities to force the EU to finally do something about one of its criminal bank, not that the EU really cares. Laws, like austerity, are […]
EU politics
Thomas Piketty: Suppression of the wealth tax: an historical error
The suppression of the wealth tax (Impôt sur la Fortune or ISF) by Emmanuel Macron constitutes a serious moral, economic and historical mistake. This decision reveals a profound misunderstanding of the challenges to inequality posed by […]
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