To address a housing shortage, Spain’s second city says bank-owned properties can no longer sit empty.
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CityLab: Barcelona Forces Banks to Turn Repossessed Homes Into Affordable Housing
EU politics
Reuters – Setback for Macron as court vetoes key plank of anti-protest law
French President Emmanuel Macron’s crackdown on anti-government protests with tougher police tactics hit a fresh snag on Thursday as France’s Constitutional Court canned one of the central elements of the new rules. Read here
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
Economics
American Shipper: CargoMetrics data reveals depth of China cargo collapse
Some good data and explanations here Read here
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