Rheinmetall opens Germany’s biggest ammunition factory, aiming to catch up with the world’s leading arms makers. Berlin is set to slash welfare to finance militarisation. Demonstrators face growing repression.
EU politics
ING: Dutch rejection of Mercosur now threatens wider EU trade deals
A Free Trade Agreement between the EU and four South American countries, known as the Mercosur trade bloc, has been voted down by the Dutch parliament. This not only puts the largest-ever EU trade deal […]
EU politics
Idescat: Catalonia – Foreign Tourism Expenditures Collapse in Corona Crisis
To give you an idea of how hard hit the economies of Southern European nations were hit by the coronavirus crisis: the total expenditure by tourists resident abroad whose main destination is Catalonia was 432 […]
Economics
Prime – Ann Pettifor: Rentier capitalism is profoundly risk-averse
21st century capitalism bears little resemblance to the capitalism that fired the Industrial Revolution, or indeed to the more recent Thatcher/Reagan model of capitalism. Key sectors of today’s new hyper-capitalism are profoundly risk averse. Read […]
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