The big motor is fiscal policy and because of the flawed design in the Eurozone it is dysfunctional in the extreme. Central bank policy shifts can do little to counter the damage that fiscal austerity is doing in Europe.
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Deregulation
Allyson Pollock: Think Carillion is bad? Wait until you see what the government wants to do with the NHS
Allyson Pollock, writing in the New Statesman, feared that the lesson hasn’t been learned. The government has its eye on outsourcing yet more NHS business to two autonomous sorts of companies NHS Property Services and […]
Corruption
Berto Sagrera: Spain fails to comply with UN resolution on rights of Catalan political prisoners
El Nacional.Cat reports that the Spanish Government has dismissed the UN’s opinion that the state had violated the political rights of Catalan pro-independence leaders when they were imprisoned after the 2017 referendum. Read the article […]
Geopolitics
Middle East Eye: Why the ceasefire proposal Biden announced for Gaza has stalled
Hamas, Israel and Arab states all appear suspicious of White House’s assertion that ceasefire plan originated from Netanyahu’s government. Read HERE Gaza ceasefire 2012 Photo: Samar Abu Elouf/Creative Commons
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