Corruption
Bloomberg: Latvia’s Corruption Scandal Is Getting Even Weirder
The EU is looking more and more like a motley collection of money-laundering, tax dodging , mafia states. Is this the European dream? Read here
Regulatory Capture
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Accounting for influence: how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance
We pay our taxes, so why don’t corporations? This new report shows how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance, and concludes that it is time to kick this industry out […]
Corruption
Politico: EU legislators rake in millions in outside earnings
This is just the tip of the iceberg. What about the jobs following their time at the EU? What about jobs now for their family members? What about the perks: travel, gifts, entertainment? What about […]
Austerity
David Whyte – Two neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on
Profit-before-safety, warnings ignored, 239 people dead. Britain’s oil bonanza and London’s gentrification have much in common. David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal studies at the University of Liverpool. His most recent book is The Violence […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka: After decades of following a failed economic model, we need to reshape the state
The neo-liberal state has become a guarantor of corporate profits and engineer for increased inequaltiy . This has to change. . Read here
Corruption
Andrea Capussela – Illegality and Italy’s new government
Andrea Capussela has the courage to address probably the greatest threat to democracy in Europe: corruption. One can safely claim that in Germany there is hardly a major law or government contract, which is not purchased […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Biosafety in Danger – How industry, researchers and negotiators collaborate to undermine the UN Biodiversity Convention
Documents released to Corporate Europe Observatory following a Freedom of Information request reveal how pro-biotech lobby platform Public Research Regulation Initiative (PRRI) unites industry, researchers and regulators in ‘like-minded’ groups to influence crucial international biosafety […]
Corruption
Academics Against Press Publishers’ Right: 169 European Academics Warn Against It
Once again corporate media has bought itself an EU law. This would be a serious blow for democracy and freedom of the press, only serving corporate financial interest. It is nothing abstract and would radically […]
Corruption
Bloomberg – Latvia: Central Bank Governor Ilmars Rimsevics to Face Prosecution
In the EU you can buy citizenship, laws, and now heads of central banks. Make everything to a commodity and then let the market regulate it. great stuff – especially for the 1% with its […]
Corruption
Tax Justice Network – June Podcast
In this month’s Taxcast: We’ve had leak after leak, whistleblower after whistleblower. But no matter what the scandal is, when it comes to financial secrecy and tax dodging, the so-called big four accountancy firms are […]