Corruption
Bloomberg: KPMG, EY Reported to Police Amid Danish Laundering Probes
The big four auditing companies are caught up in almost every major financial scandal in Europe. Now in Denmark. Read here
Corruption
Corruption
The Olive Press: Journalist faces jail over plot to smear Spain’s left wing political leader Pablo Iglesias
Once again the centrists parties of Spain, the Consevatives and Social Democrats, have been caught using illegal means of undermining the leftist oppostion. Corruption, anti-democracy, and police brutality seem to be the hallmarks of this […]
Corruption
Erika Harris – Does Zuzana Čaputová’s victory signal a new kind of politics in Slovakia?
A sobre, good analysis of the recent election results in Slovakia. Unfortunately the author fails to mention that the egregiously corrupt, even prepared to form a coaltion with national neo-nazis, SMER is a Social Democrat […]
Corruption
Reuters – Explainer: Europe’s money laundering scandal
A nice summary of EU money-laundering – up to now. This story still has a lot of road ahead of it as the US authorities tend to be more strident in their investigations (see the […]
Corruption
Corruption
Prem Sikka: The ‘Big Four’ accounting firms should be broken up
Britain goes from one massive accounting scandal to the next. There are two parallels: The reports were egregiously wrong and the accounting firms earned loads of money for these reports. Read here
Corruption
Reuters – Romania files charges against former chief anti-corruption prosecutor
Another annoyance for the EU, but as long as the corrupt Romanian political class maintains the four freedoms guaranteeing a neo-liberal diktat, it will remain just that: an annoyance. By the way, the party leading […]
Corruption
Politico: Family affair rocks Portuguese government
It is the same old story. While Keynesian economists and leftists are hailing the success of a centre-left coalition in Portugal purportedly defying austerity, in reality it is the same old Social Democrat sleaze and […]
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Politico: Bayer ordered to pay $80M in cancer case linked to Roundup weedkiller
Do not expect much to change in the EU. Germany’s National Champion Bayer bought Monsanto. The German government will not let this damage Bayer’s business in the EU, just as it has protected Volkswagen from […]
Corruption
Branko Milanović – The apogee of capitalism and our political malaise
With neo-liberalism, the ethos of private gain came to dominate our political culture. Now, we have a crisis of trust in politics Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. Branko will be […]