Aviation
Reuters: Dutch government scraps plan to cap flights at Schiphol next year
This is what happens to your national sovreignty when you join the EU – which is doing all it can to slow down a just climate transition. Read HERE
Regulation
Corruption
Politico: How Europe became the Wild West of spyware
“The U.S. is working to blacklist these companies but here in Europe, they are getting the royal treatment.” Read the article HERE.
National Politics
Aneira J. Edmunds: France’s ban on the abaya – the perfect distraction?
While the ban has been presented as a protection of women’s rights, it says far more about the insecurities of the French government. Read HERE Photo: hilmar h. werner/Wikimedia Commons
Corruption
ARC – EU Commission Proposes 10 Year Glyphosate Renewal
This can’t be true. The author forgets to mention that since the German corporation Bayer bought Monsanto with its glyphosate product Round Up, the German government is no longer is against the use of glyphosate. […]
Climate Crisis
Sebastian Mang, Dominic Caddick – New EU fiscal rules jeopardise investment needed to combat climate crisis
Limits will hit poor countries the hardest Sebastian Mang is Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at the New Economics Foundation Dominic Caddick is a researcher specialising in the political economy of fiscal and monetary policy. […]
Climate Crisis
Tatyana Novikova – Rare Earth Mining: Sacrificing the Environment to Save the Planet?
The EU Critical Raw Materials Act, supposedly motivated by concern over climate change, may perversely have been about overriding environmental regulations at the national level. Tatyana Novikova reports on issues of nuclear power and sustainable […]
Corruption
Benny Haerlin; New Genetic Engineering – Small Cause, Big Effect
The genetic engineering lobby together with the EU Commission has gone on the offensive again. Benny Haerlin ist journalist and former MEP A first version of this article has been published July 7th on ARC2020 […]
National Politics
Helmut Philipp Aust – Cluster Munition and International Law
Ukraine’s use of cluster munition has implications for allies like the Federal Republic of Germany Helmut Philipp Aust is a Professor of Public and International Law at the Free University of Berlin Cross-posted from Verfassungsblog […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine – We need a collective response to climate disaster, not punitive individualism
As one European government after the other – most recently Germany – is foiled in its neo-liberal climate policies, the simple solution of the state leading the way based on social policy is anathema. Robin […]
Economics
Carlo Clericetti – Illusory European Union and the Stockholm syndrome
The new geopolitical situation, which has profoundly changed the globalisation process, shows the enormous limits of a Union born thirty years ago on very different assumptions. But the EU ruling classes do not seem to […]