EU politics
Global Finance: Auditing The Auditors
Recent audit failures are bringing new scrutiny to the dominance and business practices of the Big Four accounting firms. Read here
Regulation
Corruption
This is Money: Fury at United Utilities as it pays £180m dividend while planning to impose a hosepipe ban on customers
This is the sort of predatory capitalism being promoted by the EU neo-liberalism. Utilities should be privatised as the private sector is “more efficient”. This is just half the story. In the end the state […]
Corruption
New Economics Foundation – Reprotection: halting the EU’s deregulation drive
“Over the last decade, European politicians have started to undermine the protections that many people depend on. And Brexit is set to make things worse.” This raises the question of who understands the role of […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: The Italian crisis was the Left’s final warning
The Left must adopt a new, credible EU policy agenda: It’s time to explain how the bloc, and the euro, could be run differently, democratically and sustainably Read here
Economics
Sergio Cesaratto – Tsipras’s tie. What moral can we draw from the Greek crisis?
Klaus Regling, the head of the eurozone’s bailout fund and a German, concerning the most recent EU “debt relief” for Grecce: “It is the biggest act of solidarity that the world has ever seen” (Reglings […]
Austerity
David Whyte – Two neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on
Profit-before-safety, warnings ignored, 239 people dead. Britain’s oil bonanza and London’s gentrification have much in common. David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal studies at the University of Liverpool. His most recent book is The Violence […]
EU politics
Hygge Banking: : New data leak reveals far bigger extent of money laundering at Danske Bank than previously thought
Now we know what Danish bankers get up to when sitting by candle light in woolly jumpers eating crispy pork with parsley sauce Read here
EU politics
The New York Times: In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos’
What happened to city planning? There was a time when new social housing was built integrated in stable neighbourhoods, thus avoiding the creation of ghettos. Social segregation seems to be back on the European agenda […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Biosafety in Danger – How industry, researchers and negotiators collaborate to undermine the UN Biodiversity Convention
Documents released to Corporate Europe Observatory following a Freedom of Information request reveal how pro-biotech lobby platform Public Research Regulation Initiative (PRRI) unites industry, researchers and regulators in ‘like-minded’ groups to influence crucial international biosafety […]
Corruption
Academics Against Press Publishers’ Right: 169 European Academics Warn Against It
Once again corporate media has bought itself an EU law. This would be a serious blow for democracy and freedom of the press, only serving corporate financial interest. It is nothing abstract and would radically […]