The first estimate for extra–EU exports of goods in September 2022 was €232.0 billion, up by 24.0% compared with September 2021 (€187.1 bn). Imports from the rest of the world stood at €277.8 bn, up by 48.2% compared with September 2021 (€187.4 bn). As a result, the EU recorded a €45.8 bn deficit in trade in goods with the rest of the world in September 2022, compared with –€0.3 bn in September 2021. Intra–EU trade rose to €383.0 bn in September 2022, +26.1% compared with September 2021
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot – Looting By Other Means
What the rich nations owe the poor is not climate aid or climate loans. It’s climate reparations. Read here Canatuan Copper Mine, Zamboanga del Norte province on the island of Mindanao/Philippines CC BY 3.0, Byoguru […]
Finance
IWGB: IWGB wins worker status and rights for ‘gig economy’ CitySprint couriers once and for all
City Sprint changed workers’ contracts rather than comply with a previous ruling that they were entitled to holiday pay and minimum wage. The company could now be forced to pay out thousands in unpaid holidays. […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: What is a fair pension system?
It is perhaps time to abandon the old idea according to which reduction of inequalities should be left to income tax, while the retirement schemes should content themselves with reproducing them. Read here
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