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Politico: Brussels lobbying business picks up despite pandemic
More cash for laws and contracts in Brussels Read here
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Andrea Lorenzo Capussela – The one glaring omission in Draghi’s plan for Italy: collective action
Italy’s new government, led by the former President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has pledged to confront the key problems facing the country. Andrea Lorenzo Capussela argues there is nevertheless one notable omission […]
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Euro Intelligence: What happened to Germany?
The pandemic has exposed two German myths: of competency and superiority. Munchau oddly does not mention the corruption scandal as at least two of Merkel’s parliamentarians used their office to gain PPI contracts for clients […]
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Branko Milanović – Distinguishing post-communist privatizations from the Big Bang
Some political economic history for the weekend. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World” Cross-posted from Branko’s […]
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Euro Intelligence: Oops, Germany forgot to buy the self-tests
When a nation is guided by endemic corruption, the diktat of corporations, and a toxic ideology it loses the ability to run a nation or fulfil its basic duties. In the case of Germany this […]
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Wolfgang Streeck – Passing Hot Potatoes: the Vaccine Wars
You can never be sure who is doing what and why in and around Brussels, the most impenetrable political socio-type since the demise of the Soviet Union. Wolfgang Streeck is the Emeritus Director of Director […]
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Yanis Varoufakis – Is the EU Recovery Fund a step toward integration or further fragmentation?
Yanis Vraoufakis’ analysis concerning the EU is as usual excellent. His solutions are definitely open to debate. Listen here
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Richard Murphy – Doctors are suggesting our politicians might be committing social murder and the press does not notice. How does that happen?
This is a topic that has been meticulously avoided by corporate media and has been kept out of the public discourse: responsibility of governments for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Richard Murphy is a […]
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Antonio Lettieri – Covid, Italy, and the EU: From Bad to Worse
Instead of building back better, the EU and eurozone are deepening the crisis it has been mired in for over a decade. In Italy both economically and politically. Antonio Lettieri is Editor of Insight and […]
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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
Book Review by David Shirreff First, the good news. This is undoubtedly a useful book. It is a mine of information and anecdote, cleverly told, about the kleptocrats who apparently move untroubled around the world […]