Environmental groups have slammed Ursula von der Leyen’s proposed “One in, one out” approach to new EU legislation describing it as the “biggest threat to EU climate and environmental action”.
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Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – COPA-COGECA: defending farmers in public and the agribusiness industry in private?
Over the next two weeks, the European Parliament will discuss its opinion on the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy. COPA-COGECA’s suggested amendments to MEPs were leaked, and confirm once again the organisation’s problematic positions: […]
Corruption
Larry Elliot: Is it time to break up the tech giants such as Facebook?
The United States has been promoting monopolies for decades. This has been supported by a perversion of free market economics: monopolies provide cheaper prices and thus benefit consumers. Maybe at the till, but what about […]
EU politics
Francis Weyzig: There is no link between tax rates and competitiveness!
The Netherlands, already notorious for its corporate tax-avoiding regimen, is about to reduce its corporate tax further. Weyzig explains that “The facts show that corporate taxes are irrelevant for a country’s competitiveness”. It fact, it […]
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