Corruption
Politico: How Europe’s biggest media company infiltrated the EU
How Bertelsmann mixes business, philanthropy and Continental politics. Read here
Lobbying
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – International Regulatory Cooperation and the Public Good
Regulation gets a bad name in much of the world today; business lobbies have successfully equated it in many people’s minds with just so much “red tape”. But the need for stronger, and more precautionary, […]
Corruption
Environmental Working Group: Jury Slams Bayer-Monsanto in Latest Roundup Cancer Trial
This is the difference between corrupt EU and German politicians and objective juries. Despite repeated warnings, which were suppressed, apparently also with illegal means (see this) Roundup has gotten literally away with murder – and […]
Economics
Ben Wray – What Currency? A Question that Sharply Divides Backers of Scottish Independence
Scottish National Party members are due to vote shortly on whether – given success in a future referendum – an independent Scotland would “sterlingise” or create its own currency Ben Wray is CommonSpace editor and […]
Climate Crisis
Sophie Yeo – MEPs Decide not to Punish Exxon for No-show at Climate Hearing
The European Parliament stopped short of stripping ExxonMobil of lobbying rights after its failure to attend a hearing on climate denial Sophie Yeo writes for DesmogUK Cross-posted from DesmogUK ExxonMobil will retain its ability to […]
Corruption
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – Climate Arson: The strategies and impact of ExxonMobil’s dangerous EU lobbying
For more than half a century, ExxonMobil has denied and downplayed climate change, has refused any responsibility for global warming and continues to fund groups spreading misinformation. Now, the company is facing the first public […]
Austerity
Renegade Inc: Myth Busting the European Dream featuring Mathew D. Rose
Politically you can ignore some of the people some of the time…but you can’t ignore all the people all of the time. For many years European citizens have intuitively opposed unaccountability, a lack of political […]
Corruption
Adrian Bua, Margaret Welsh and Nina Holland – ‘Innovating’ our way into disaster
Big business is using the language of progress to strip away consumer protections Adrian Bua is Researcher at the New Economics Foundation Margaret Welsh is Communications Officer at the New Economics Foundation Nina Holland is […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – TTIP reloaded: big business calls the shots on new EU-US trade talks
Two years after the suspension of the highly controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), EU member states and the European Commission are preparing mandates for new trade negotiations with the US. But not much […]