Slovakia and Hungary said they will not bow to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to reduce imports of Russian oil and gas unless the European Union secures sufficient alternative energy supplies, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 17.
Austerity
Forbes: The French Pension-Protest Strikes: There’s More Than Meets The Eye
The French workers seem to be holding. Read here Thousands of demonstrators on 17 December 2019 took to the streets of Toulouse, languedoc … NurPhoto via Getty Images
Economics
Chris Dillow: In praise of conventional thinking
When does innovation work and when not? I’m prompted to ask by Ed Smith’s wonderful new book, Making Decisions, which argues for the need for”anti-processes”, original thinking and spontaneity to resist “the slide into bureaucratic […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Lawyer says Foreign Office told her to ignore EU corruption evidence
A typical example of the daily corruption endemic in the EU. The EU’s attitude towards whistle-blowers appears to be similar to its attitude towards democracy: both just get in the way of the EU elite […]
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