Corporate lobbies often exert heavy pressure on member states’ decision-making in the Council of the EU, especially when it comes to making new rules and regulations. But how does the influencing work in practice?
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EU politics
The Independent: Emmanuel Macron branded ‘hero of the rich’ for cutting taxes for the wealthiest in new French budget
Emmanuel Macron seems to be pushing through a neo-liberal policy that once again enriches the few and immiserates the many. What else is new in the European Union? Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The Left propaganda that the state is powerless – continues
Bill Mitchell takes a recent article in The Guardian, Rana Dasgupta – The demise of the nation state, to debunk the leftist denigration of the national state as an essential instrument in pushing back neo-liberalism. […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell – Wolfgang Schäuble is gone but his disastrous legacy will continue
Bill Mitchell has a long, hard look at the legacy of Germany’s outgoing finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Read here
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