Corruption
EU-OCS: Thierry Breton: Is Macron new pick for the EU Commission a smart move?
The EU neo-liberal dream: Big Business regulating Big Business Read here
Regulatory Capture
Corruption
Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo and Benjamin Novak – The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. for Millions
Why do such explicit articles have to come from the USA? It says everything about corporate media in the EU. Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Reform of EU Council Transparency in Stalemate
Is anyone really surprised? Transparency is not a quality of an undemocratic institution. Corporate Europe Observatory is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations […]
Corruption
Vigjilenca Abazi: New EU Directive on Whistleblower Protection
This is well and truly a milestone. Interesting are the two nations that abstained. Britain, because it is scheduled to leave the EU and does this on principle and Germany because of its endemic corporate […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka: There’s a grimly familiar Story behind Thomas Cook’s Collapse
The holiday provider’s collapse highlights corporate governance and regulatory failures while the gravy train for directors continued. Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Who Owns All The EU Pipelines?
Why is the EU still building new and unnecessary gas pipelines and LNG terminals? Who’s pushing them and who’s profiting from them? The companies behind Europe’s gas transport network are rarely household names, yet their […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Uber-Influential
Unfortunately Corporate Europe Observatory does not answer its own question why the European Commission is supporting the Gig Economy corporations: Corruption. Corporate Europe Observatory is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge […]
Finance
Sky News – Top EU regulator in talks to head bank lobby group
One of Europe’s top banking regulators is in talks to head the trade body that leads the investment banking industry’s lobbying effort across the EU. Read here
Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – Germany: Liberal Democracy is Rotting from its Core
Most German establishment political parties have turned away from striving for a better society. In recent decades they have become profit-oriented service companies in a billion euro industry: selling laws, permits, public contracts, even protection, […]
Corruption
Juan Laborda – Sánchez in His Resistance Labyrinth: the “Cameron Effect” and the Banking Problem
It appears that Spain’s politics is determined by vested interests of the 1%, and in a moment of crisis, unfortunately once again led by the Social Democrats. Juan Laborda teaches Financial Economics at the University […]