Corruption
EU Observer – Malta: EU island of ‘impunity and fear’
Malta – a model EU land? It depends upon which EU model you are referring to. Read here
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Romania Insider: Romania’s chief anti-graft prosecutor faces disciplinary action for misconduct
Romania’s corrupt political elite is trying to get rid of the National Anticorruption Directorate’s chief prosecutor and her deputy. The reason: they are doing their job and investigating, arresting, and convicting leading politicians. Should the […]
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Malta Today: Serbian magnate Dragan Solak outed by MaltaFiles over tax avoidance, is Malta’s newest citizen
Oligarchs buy EU citizenship. Not only are investigative journalists blown up in Malta, the government sells citizenship – but only to those with enough money. In this case a prodigious tax avoider. These are apparently […]
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João Paulo Batalha – The Great Christmas Heist: Portugal’s political party financing caper reveals a democratic deficit
It seemed a sure thing. A vast majority of political parties in Portugal – from far left to neoliberal right – got together four days before Christmas to reward themselves by inserting lucrative loopholes in […]
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Investigate Europe: The overlooked past of the ‘next PM of Greece’
After being crushed ba the EU, the European Central Bank, and the IMF and the sellout by Syriza, Greece appears to be returning to its oligarchic legacy. That is not reform, that is reactionary politics. […]
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The Guardian: Cloud of corruption hangs over Bulgaria as it takes up EU presidency
Among journalists there is a trick to getting controversial articles past the powers that be: wait until between Christmas and New Year. This is a real corker in the Guardian, explaining why despite the horrendous […]
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Corporate Europe Observatory – Corporate lobbying influence over the Council of the EU
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 […]
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Corporate Europe Observatory – Arms industry lobbying and the militarisation of the EU
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 […]
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Aditya Chakrabortty: Haringey council taken over by Momentum? It’s just locals taking back control
Chakrabortty explains how the neo-liberal media is warming up to systematically denigrate its opponents, which in the UK are gaining political ground. Much of the mainstream media in Europe is not combatting Fake News, which they […]
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Norbert Häring – How Uber money dominates and distorts economic research on ride-hailing platforms
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 […]