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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Climate Crisis
BBC: Britain – Heathrow drone protest: Five arrested over planned disruption
When the police step in in this fashion you know you have hit a nerve. Read here
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Government debt phobias, and possible cures
Simon Wren-Lewis answers five basic questions concerning national debt: The country will go bankrupt When will the debt be paid off? Money could go on something more useful than paying interest Why should my taxes […]
Climate Crisis
Timothée Parrique: Decoupling in the IPCC Report
It’s the Galileo affair of the 21st century: Has economic growth in developed countries decoupled from environmental pressures? For the last decade, the prevailing (yet unproven) answer was: yes, it has – high-income nations have greened […]
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