We keep hearing about major changes of policy by the IMF, World Bank, now OECD. When it comes to changing their practices, these changes never materialise.
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Forget European reform – the Germans have anyway
Regularly the corporate press and its pundits declare that the EU is about to change for the better. The latest was that Macron was going to bring reform. What happened? Then it was the German […]
Corruption
World Politics Review: How the Murder of a Journalist in Malta Exposed Europe’s Corruption Problem
What no one wants to admit is that with the exception maybe of Scandinavia, corruption is endemic in the EU. Just look at the history of Maltese members of the EU in the European Commission. […]
EU politics
Common Space: MEPs condemn ‘unequal treatment’ as European Parliament blocks Catalan conference but allows far-right Spanish event
The far-right Spanish party Vox will accuse the Catalan independence movement of a “coup d’état” at the European Parliament in March, while an event featuring Catalan President Quim Torra and former president Carles Puigdemont has […]
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