This is well and truly a milestone. Interesting are the two nations that abstained. Britain, because it is scheduled to leave the EU and does this on principle and Germany because of its endemic corporate crime. Germany does not have a whistle-blower law. That was very convenient during the diesel scandal. This is unfortunately only in German, but here is an intervention by Germany against the law: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/parlements_nationaux/com/2018/0218/DE_BUNDESRAT_CONT1-COM(2018)0218_DE.pdf
Inequality
European Network of Corporate Observatories: Caring for Profit
Public policies have largely favoured the development of a for-profit health sector. Here is a study of the EU, country by country. Brexit Britain – surely the biggest offender – accordingly gets off the hook. […]
Geopolitics
+972 Magazine: ‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’
For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel’s crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible Read Article HERE Michael Barenboim at the end of a Make Freedom Ring concert. […]
EU politics
The Local de: German business warns of Brexit ‘chaos’
The EU has been lying to its citizens for two years, claiming that Brexit would destroy the British economy while leaving EU business unscathed. How that would be possible if Germany alone has a 40 […]
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