Bill Mitchell: The Merkel failure

Mali’s government expels Danish troops, because they had joined the French-led Opération Takuba without the necessary approval. Resentment grows toward EU. Read Here

European Commission faces pressure to set legally binding targets to tackle food waste scandal. Read Here

Politics is dominated by a “lumpen intelligentsia”: “earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems.” Read here