A report exploring the dangers the corporate privileges the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) would bring to new signatory states in Africa, Asia & Latin America
Environment
rfi: France moves to ease pesticide ban to save sugar beet farmers
This is typical for the EU. First a law forbidding neonicotinoids, then providing openings to by-pass the law and use this insecticide. Ten other EU member states have also used the exemption.Thus the EU can […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: MMT and Labour’s fiscal rule
Simon Wren-Lewis, one of the architects of the British Labour Party´s “Fiscal Rule”, replies to Bill Mitchell`s criticism (read here and here) Read here
Climate Crisis
Heiner Flassbeck – The great illusion: COP 28 and the end of fossil fuels
After all, eight years after the Paris Agreement, most of the world has now realised that there is a problem with fossil fuel producers. The conference known as COP 28, which has just ended in […]
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