Corruption
Hubert Horan, Izabella Kaminska: The “Uber Files” are not the Uber exposé you are looking for
Finally an article that analyses the case of Uber and the Uber Files with the real big picture Read Here
Regulation
Climate Crisis
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg – Right wing farmers’ protests in the Netherlands
For those who are less than familiar with the intricacies of Dutch agriculture, the current wave of farmers’ protests (see DutchNews.nl: “Up to 40,000 farmers demonstrate against farm closures”, June 2022) will surely be puzzling. […]
Corruption
BBC – Uber Files: Massive leak reveals how top politicians secretly helped Uber
Thousands of leaked files have exposed how Uber courted top politicians, and how far it went to avoid justice. Read Here The files show Emmanuel Macron was on first name terms with Uber’s founder while […]
EU politics
Aleks Szczerbiak – How will Poland’s ‘rule of law’ dispute with the EU political establishment develop?
Germany has the same relationship to the rule of law in the EU as most EU citizens have to their doormat. Rule of law is for wimps, or in the case of Poland, a government […]
Austerity
Michael Hudson – Mid 2022 Geo-Political Levers at Play
Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and US Federal Reserve’s “austerity program to reduce wages” and boost unemployment. He warns a “long depression” is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and […]
Economics
Philip Cunliffe: This is not a class war
The unions didn’t cause our summer of discontent Read Here
Corruption
euobserver: How industry watered-down new EU supply chain rules
The rules say the EU Commission’s regulatory board is not supposed to discuss individual files in meetings with lobbyists, but the evidence in our report reveals a major loophole: they can be — and are […]
Climate Crisis
Our Fish – Scientific Advice: No improvement for collapsed fish stocks – time for a reboot in the Baltic Sea
Responding to today’s publication of annual scientific advice for 2023 fishing limits in the Baltic Sea by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), a group of non-governmental organisations said that the […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – The EU after Ukraine
Assuming that the history of the European Union begins with the European Economic Community (EEC), which was formed in 1958, it has now lasted almost two-thirds of a century. It started out as a six-country […]
Economics
Peter Ramsay – The Decay of Liberalism
The road to illiberal liberallism. Peter Ramsay is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. He is also one of the founding editors of The Northern Star This article originally appeared at The Northern […]