Corruption
Politico: Inside Facebook’s fight against European regulation
Dozens of Commission documents show how the tech giant pushed back against rules on issues ranging from copyright to privacy. Read here
Lobbying
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Why the Far Right came to embrace the EU
What happened to the Far Right threat to the EU? Despite all the threats and resulting headlines it has disappeared. Probably because they may no longer be a threat to the EU, but the saviour […]
Corruption
euobserver: Centre-right MEPs want transparency vote to be secret
That is transparency à la EU. What a farce. The EU poltical class seems very busy subverting democracy these days (Read here and here) Read here
Corruption
George Monbiot: Toxic fumes threaten our children. We have to take on the pollution lobby
The growth in emissions is creating a ‘diesel generation’ of unhealthy youngsters. And some of the world’s most powerful industries are behind it Read here
Austerity
The European Illusion – Why We Need New Strategies Towards the EU and Beyond by Attac Austria
Book review by Mathew D. Rose It takes courage these days to write a book critical of the EU, especially from a leftist perspective: to do so in Austria even more so. Austria, like Germany, […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – COP24 reeked of Gas
Wrap-up from the UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory This year’s UN climate talks, COP24, wrapped up late on Saturday night in Katowice, Poland. They were supposed to agree the […]
Corruption
Adrian Bua and Myriam Douo- EU Deregulation: why the drugs don’t work
It’s the same story over and over again. Where the EU can use its trans-European power for the good of its citizens, it instead chooses to further the interest of corporations. Adrian Bua is a […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Copyright Directive: how competing big business lobbies drowned out critical voices
This is without a doubt a brilliant piece of research. Unfortunately it is also extremely long. Do have a go at it. After five minutes of reading you will have the gist of it and […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Car lobby opposes EU safety bid that ‘would save 1,300 lives a year’
What is another 1,300 lives? Car manufacturers already send hundreds of thousands of Europeans to early deaths with their cheating devices in diesel cars. This will end with Germany intervening and telling the EU they […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Uber pushed for UK congestion charges that would hit poor hardest
Two neo-liberals have a meeting. A Tory minister, notorious for his incompetence in public transport – or attempt to destroy its credibility, who wishes to further privatise public transport, and the CEO of an international […]