Just as Angela Merkel’s reputation as the world leader of Liberal Democracy – not difficult while Donald Trump was in office – is fading following a series of fiascos, she has been outflanked by the […]
Who meets the European Commission to discuss the scarcity of COVID vaccines and medicines in Europe and globally? An investigation of recent meetings show a disconcerting pattern: only those not questioning big pharma’s monopoly on […]
Five years after the Paris Agreement, consensus reigns among governments, yet emissions continue to rise nonetheless. Ben Wray, Bella’s European Feature Writer, finds that government greenwash is now our biggest threat, and the European Commission […]
The European Union is billing its 750-billion-euro pandemic Recovery Fund as the opportunity of the century to transform the region’s economy and help it lead the world in reducing carbon emissions. But a closer look […]
Is the Biden government just another attempt to stop the great capitalist train crash? Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate […]
An interview with Tommaso Valletti, who served as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission from 2016 until 2019. He tells us how, after moving from academic life to policy and being confronted with questions […]
The self-serving arguments used by big pharma lobbyists at meetings with the European Commission to defend monopoly intellectual property rights on vaccines are demonstrably false. Corporate Europe Observatory has uncovered new documents from December 2020 […]
While UK governments have refrained from intervening in the private sector, they enable ever greater business access to public authority and revenue. Successive policies have led to corporate state capture. Abby Innes is an Assistant […]
Power to the platforms. AlesiaKan Luke Yates, University of Manchester What David Cameron once called “the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money”, has come back to haunt him. By lobbying on behalf of […]
The European Commission has proposed to Member States to expand the highly problematic model of EU Joint Undertakings, very large industry-driven public-private research partnerships, in the EU’s new research funding programme Horizon Europe. Read here
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