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Romania Insider: Romania’s chief anti-graft prosecutor faces disciplinary action for misconduct

January 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

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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João Paulo Batalha – The Great Christmas Heist: Portugal’s political party financing caper reveals a democratic deficit

January 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

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’

January 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

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

December 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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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Aditya Chakrabortty: Haringey council taken over by Momentum? It’s just locals taking back control

December 12, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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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Romania-Insider.com: Former Romanian interior minister sentenced to 5 years in prison

December 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Romania has been a member of the EU for 10 years. Corruption remains endemic, but that does not appear to bother the EU in the least. Read here  

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Miguel Guerra – Law & Order: Spain

November 23, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Miguel Guerra criticises the state of law and order in Spain, but this is applicable to most European nations South of Scandinavia: Law and order does not apply for the corrupt political elite. He might […]

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Romania-Insider.com: Romanian Social Democrat leader investigated for abuse of office in new case

November 13, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The egregious saga of the corruption scandals surrounding Romania’s Social Democracy Party continues. After 10 years of Romania being a member of the EU this seems not to disturb the European Union in the least. […]

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João Paulo Batalha – Corruption in Portugal: The mighty have fallen – the elite’s day of reckoning

October 12, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

A prime minister, a banker, the heads of the top telecom company, construction moguls, assorted friends and family. Portugal’s biggest corruption case ever is a veritable who’s who of the nation’s political and business elite. […]

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João Paulo Batalha – Nowhere to run: Portuguese local elections signal the death of politics-as-usual

October 4, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The headline from last weekend’s municipal elections in Portugal is the success of the Socialist Party, an exception to the demise of the European center-left. But there are deeper lessons if you look at the […]

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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

March 2, 2023 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington are authors of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies.  They launched their book with […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

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Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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