Corruption
Malta Independent: Malta is a mafia state, claims author
Isn’t Malta a member of the EU? Read here
Regulatory Capture
Corruption
Martin Galea De Giovanni – When big business captures the state: murder by capitalism
Malta has a ‘Labour’ (Social Democrat) government whose major battle cry has been to be the most business-friendly government in Malta’s history. Martin Galea De Giovanni is Director of Friends of the Earth Malta. Cross-posted […]
Climate Crisis
Influence Map – The EU’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy: An analysis of how business has sought to influence this key EU policy
This would be the world’s first regulatory benchmark for green financial products. Of course corporations and many EU governments are trying to corrupt it to support profits, but resulting in further damage to the environment. […]
Corruption
Justin Borg-Barthet – Malta: A Captured State
Why the EU has to Intervene Quickly in the Rule of Law Crisis in Malta Justin Borg-Barthet is a Senior Lecturer in EU Law at the University of Aberdeen. Cross-posted from Verfassungsblog In the immediate […]
Climate Crisis
Jillian Ambrose: Fossil fuel lobbyists push to dilute EU anti-greenwash plan
This is an exceptionally important article about a topic that is being conveniently ignored by most mainstream media. Energy industry in particularly fights back against planned new rules on green labelling Read here
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory: Picking up the plastics trail: how Ireland cooperated with the plastics industry
Corporate lobbies often exert heavy pressure on member states’ decision-making in the Council of the EU, especially when it comes to making new rules and regulations. But how does the influencing work in practice? Read […]
Corruption
Frances Coppola – Britain: The Tories aren’t the Party of Business – just the London Financial Elite
The Conservative Party used to look after big, nationwide businesses. Now it serves a finance industry based in a few small areas of the capital. What is unfortunately not mentioned is that this system is […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – EU: Thierry Breton, the Corporate Commissioner?
After seeing his first pick for Commissioner rejected by the European Parliament due to concerns of conflict of interests, French President Macron seems to have doubled down with a potentially even more controversial nomination: Thierry […]
Climate Crisis
David Keating: European Investment Bank Delays EU Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Proposal
An alcoholic, the Germans, and Orban join forces to protect fossil fuel corporations and destroy the planet. Read here
Corruption
Reuters: ECB governor accused of bribery in Latvia corruption trial
These are the sort of people running the European Central Bank. Still another example for the endemic corruption in the EU political elite. Pity we can never write about endemic integrity in the EU political […]