Finance
Sky News – Top EU regulator in talks to head bank lobby group
One of Europe’s top banking regulators is in talks to head the trade body that leads the investment banking industry’s lobbying effort across the EU. Read here
Corruption
Corruption
Frances Coppola: Britain’s Longest-Running Financial Scandal has come to an End
Atoning for their mortgage and pension mis-selling scams has cost the UK banks billions, but their payouts perversely kept consumer spending alive. What happens now? Read here
Climate Crisis
Daniel Willis – Amazonian communities need solidarity, not saviours
We have no chance of avoiding environmental catastrophe whilst colonialist and market-first attitudes to climate persist Daniel Willis is policy and campaigns manager at Global Justice Now Cross-posted from Global Justice Now A multitude of […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – I am not Boris
Leading Brexiteers, starting with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have sought to portray Greece’s former finance minister as one of their own. And while they clearly know better, they must be delighted that many Remainers […]
Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – Germany: Liberal Democracy is Rotting from its Core
Most German establishment political parties have turned away from striving for a better society. In recent decades they have become profit-oriented service companies in a billion euro industry: selling laws, permits, public contracts, even protection, […]
Corruption
The Irish Times: Europe criticised for not pressing Malta over journalist’s killing
Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family say governments refuse to support call for public inquiry Read here
Corruption
Juan Laborda – Sánchez in His Resistance Labyrinth: the “Cameron Effect” and the Banking Problem
It appears that Spain’s politics is determined by vested interests of the 1%, and in a moment of crisis, unfortunately once again led by the Social Democrats. Juan Laborda teaches Financial Economics at the University […]
Corruption
Ground Up – South African Activists Blame German Company for Corrupt Train Bid
This is a repeat of what happened in Greece, where the Germans were one of the main perpetrators of corruption. There were no serious consequences for German managers and the fines paid by German companies […]
Corruption
David Jiménez – Breaking the Silence About Corruption in Spain’s Press
After 18 years as a war reporter and correspondent, David Jiménez was appointed editor-in-chief of El Mundo, one of Spain’s biggest dailies, at the end of his Nieman fellowship at Harvard in 2015. What seemed […]
Corruption
Michael Roberts – Greece: Completing the Vicious Circle
A good overview of economic developments in Greece during four years of Syriza government. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog So the full […]