France has launched a “flash fuel loan” program offering up to 50,000 euros to small businesses in the transport, agriculture, and fisheries sectors as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to drive up fuel prices and disrupt global energy markets.
EU politics
Lily Lynch: Estonia’s hawks
Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has become an icon of the new feminist Atlanticism, a rebranded form of aggressive militarism, writes Lily Lynch in ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Inequality
Adam Tooze – Chartbook 330: Africa & absolute poverty in an era of polycrisis
The reduction in global absolute poverty has stalled. In Adam Tooze’s Substack. Read the article HERE.
Finance
The Guardian: EU to force firms to reveal true owners in wake of Panama Papers
Companies across the EU will be forced to disclose their true owners under new legislation prompted by the release of the Panama Papers. Anti-corruption campaigners applauded the agreement as a major step in the fight […]
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