Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – Derailing EU rules on new GMOs
Files expose lobbying tactics to deregulate new GMOs Read here
Regulatory Capture
Corruption
Carlos Rodríguez: Uber won’t win in Barcelona
Following the taxi protest on Thursday [18 March] against Uber’s return to Barcelona (read more here), it has been revealed that the global ride-hail platform has not been operating in the city since it officially […]
Corruption
Double Down News: Peter Jukes – The Weaponisation of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
A good summing up of the lodestar of journalism – and for any political thinking – follow the money. The Weaponisation of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories @peterjukes pic.twitter.com/HkQDXWmb1i — Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) September 8, […]
Corruption
Yanis Varoufakis – Draghi’s outrageous deployment of McKinsey, Europe’s predicament, DiEM25’s proposals
“Mario Draghi hired McKinsey to ‘organise’ Italy’s distribution of the Recovery Fund monies. What next? Get the Mafia to re-organise the Ministry of Justice?” Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of […]
Corruption
Carlos Rodríguez: Uber no ganará en Barcelona
Tras la protesta de los taxistas el jueves [18 de marzo] contra el regreso de Uber a Barcelona (leer más aquí), se ha revelado que la plataforma global de viajes compartidos no ha operado en […]
Corruption
Politico: Brussels lobbying business picks up despite pandemic
More cash for laws and contracts in Brussels Read here
Corruption
Reuters: Italian government faces criticism over consulting contract with McKinsey over EU funds
Why does the EU need a political class if it is no longer capable of governing? To decide which consultants will do their work and then collect the kickback? Read here
Corruption
Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri: COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed massive failures of governance at the global and national levels. Global health governance failed rapidly, with action quickly becoming nationally based, uncoordinated, and often zero-sum. However, domestic health governance also […]
Corruption
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 […]
Corruption
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 […]