What is never mentioned with regard to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index is that it takes two parties to make a corrupt deal. Transparency only counts the recipient of corruption, not the party paying. If […]
The British government pushed to weaken EU controls on biomass energy in December, even though the technology will undermine efforts to contain global warming for up to half a century, according to research released today. […]
Nick Shaxson provides a good introduction to the opaque world of tax havens. Read here
Isn’t it convenient that people are poor. As Bertolt Brecht famously wrote: “First comes food, then morals”. If you are hungry, it matters little what you eat. The increasing poverty in Europe has raised the […]
Once again it is the United States uncovering massive corruption in Europe. This time it is the political nomenclature of Greece, many leading figures in the EU. What has come to light there would be […]
Corporate Europe Observatory has started a new workstream to publish investigations which expose corporate lobby influence over the decision-making of the Council of the EU (member states) and how this impacts on resulting laws and […]
40 billion euros. That’s how much the European Union wants to spend on the research, development and procurement of new weapons during the next 10 years. The establishment of the European Defence Fund is an […]
The academic community is discrediting itself, much like the political elite before it, as it prostitutes itself to big business. Norbert Häring is a financial journalist at the German daily business newspaper Handelsblatt, blogger and […]
A new report from CEO shows why the fire-power of the gas industry makes it a powerful and effective lobbying force in Brussels and national capitals. Meanwhile, public interest groups have a fraction of the resources and […]
The shipping industry is one of the main cotributors to CO² and nitrogen-oxide. It is hardly regulated with regard to emissions as this article documents. Megan Darby is Climate Home’s deputy editor. She previously wrote […]
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