The ECB’s power is disturbing in the sense that its decision makers are unelected and largely unaccountable. It does have to provide reports to the European Parliament but it mostly does what it likes. Worst […]
“Lisbon – Europe’s best kept tax secret”. Portugal is offering foreigners tax dodges by buying property in their nation. The race to the bottom is heating up. Francis Weyzig is senior policy advisor at Oxfam Novib […]
“Economics has become a self-fulfilling complete theorem unto itself, which is taught as if it were the mantra to take up,” she says. “It has to be questioned. We have to go back examine those […]
Deductivist models and ‘analytical’ methods disconnected from reality are not relevant to predict, explain or understand real-world economies. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education and Society at Malmö, Sweden Cross-posted […]
Fintan O’toole is right. The problems with the banks, be it in the US, UK, and apparently in Ireland, started 30 years ago, which is when neo-liberlalism began its crusade. It marked the end of […]
The shipping industry is one of the main cotributors to CO² and nitrogen-oxide. It is hardly regulated with regard to emissions as this article documents. Megan Darby is Climate Home’s deputy editor. She previously wrote […]
There is nothing good to be said about tax-havens, except by those very few that profit from them. Britain’s threat to become Europe’s turbo tax-haven, should it not receive a good deal from the EU, […]
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence – or the English Channel. Anyone who has experience with German Landesbanks, Sparkassen, or KfW knows that they are far from perfect. In […]
The great Macron movement seems to be going the usual EU neo-liberal route. Read here
Macron’s 2018 Budget fits in the EU pattern: More Money for the wealthy, less for the young, in this case for higher education. Read here
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