The first estimate for euro area exports of goods to the rest of the world in January 2022 was €199.5 billion, an increase of 18.9% compared with January 2021 (€167.8 bn). Imports from the rest of the world stood at €226.7 bn, a rise of 44.3% compared with January 2021 (€157.1 bn), driven by a further increase in energy imports.
EU politics
Sven Giegold: Commission Proposal on Company Law: Promotional Programme for Tax and Social Dumping in Europe
Wasn’t the EU being reformed? The question is for whose benefit? It looks like the same old EU policy of serving the interests of corporations at the cost of its citizens. Read here
Austerity
Frances Coppola – Greece: The Greatest Depression
The Greek people have just lived through a Depression as deep as the Great Depression and considerably longer. It is now the greatest recorded peacetime Depression. Read here
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: Ground Rules
We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis. Read here
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