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Climate Change
Mark Blyth: Europe’s new conflicts
Migrants, economy, environment: Europe is one big argument. And the showdown’s in May? Read here
Tax
Economics
Bill Mitchell: EU deliberately subjugates prosperity to maintain its neoliberal ideology
The European Union deliberately chooses to subjugate economic prosperity and the well-being of people (jobs, incomes, savings, etc) to maintain an adherence to an ideology that purposely redistributes real resources and incomes to the top […]
Finance
The Nib: The Wealthy Aren’t Paying Their Share. How Do We Get Rid of Tax Havens?
Despite Panama and Paradise Paper revelations, and hubristic political promises, tax havens continue to support tax evasion and looting by global elites. This superb infographic tells the sordid story of a global failure. Read here
Corruption
Sven Giegold: Taxation: EU-Commission is putting up a smokescreen
The EU Commission’s proposal on qualified majority voting on tax is a trick, to achieve the opposite end (and to protect the tax havens, like Juncker’s Luxembourg). The EU poltical class seems very busy subverting […]
Austerity
Robin McAlpine – Why the debate about Modern Monetary Theory in the Scottish independence movement is exactly what we need right now
While the Catalan independence movement is bogged down and limited to presenting itself as a victim, the Scottish independence movement is seeking the discussion that is necessary: What sort of society should an independent Scotland […]
Austerity
Serge Halimi: Forgotten France rises up
A brilliant article. Le Monde diplomatique at its best. The social reality Halimi describes could be the UK. Also the forces protecting neo-liberalism: Graduates, the middle class, those in big cities, the EU ‘Journalists must […]
EU politics
DatLab Blog: Tenders in EU: how much goes to tax havens?
Tax haven based companies won 5 % of the value of public tenders throughout EU countries in 2006-2017. That yields a rough estimate of 100 bilion EUR being awarded annually to such companies. Read here
EU politics
The Irish Times: Google ramps up the ‘double Irish’ before closing time
‘Google and the other large companies that form part of the global tech vanguard are squeezing every last drop out of the “double Irish, Dutch sandwich” tax-avoidance trick before the loophole is finally closed by […]
EU politics
SafeHaven: Austria Rings In New Year With Tax Threat For Tech Giants
The European Union has been desperately trying to implement a plan to get tech companies that generate billions of dollars online to pay more taxes. But with a plan to impose a bloc-wide tax regulation […]
EU politics
This is Money: Almost 1 in 5 of Britain’s biggest firms paid NOTHING last year – and some even got a handout from the taxman…
Almost 1 in 5 of biggest UK companies paid no corporation tax last year. The list includes Astrazenca, BP, Royal Mail, British Gas owner Centrica, British Land, Ocado, Standard Chartered and others whilst their directors […]