Austerity didn’t produce recovery in Latvia, it produced the semblance of recovery, says white-collar criminologist Bill Black. It also led to rampant criminal activity in the banking sector, such as money laundering, taking bribes, and […]
What is never mentioned with regard to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index is that it takes two parties to make a corrupt deal. Transparency only counts the recipient of corruption, not the party paying. If […]
The justice systems in many European nations have little to do with justice, serving the interests of those in power. Portugal is no exception. João Paulo Batalha is a social activist and founding member of […]
Two members of the European Central Bank Board of Governors are being investigated for corruption: Yannis Stournaras of Greece and now Ilmars Rimsevics of Latvia. Both are heads of their nation’s central banks. Maybe the […]
Europeans believe they have very little corruption. That is because laws have been created to make corrruption legal – at least when it is on a large scale. Read here
Nick Shaxson provides a good introduction to the opaque world of tax havens. Read here
Isn’t it convenient that people are poor. As Bertolt Brecht famously wrote: “First comes food, then morals”. If you are hungry, it matters little what you eat. The increasing poverty in Europe has raised the […]
Neo-liberalism has a face. In fact it has many faces. Lina Galvez looks at the career and egregious damage done to Spanish society by one of these faces: Rodrigo Rato. Lina Gálvez is Professor of […]
Mario Draghi has been forced to leave the opaque G30. If the head of the ECB should not be there, why is the head of the Bank of England still a member? Read here
There was absolutely no reason for Mario Draghi to be there – and many against his participation. The decision of the European Ombudsman to ask the European Central Bank President to end his membership of […]
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