They point out that Elgin had a permit from the Ottoman occupying forces in Athens to take what he liked from the Acropolis — which, they insist, gave him the right to own and to sell on whatever he removed…..Imagine if the Nazi occupying forces in Paris had granted some gentleman a permit to remove statues from the Louvre. Or if Putin’s men in Mariupol were, today, to grant a visiting antiquities dealer a permit to remove priceless artefacts from a local museum. The very notion that these permits bestow secure property rights over the removed artefacts is an affront to every decent person worldwide.
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: New orders in manufacturing in November 2024: -5.4% on the previous month
New orders in manufacturing: November 2024 (in real terms, provisional): -5.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -1.7% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) Read HERE
EU politics
Explica :Swiss reject in referendum the creation of an electronic identity card
Swiss voters today rejected a government proposal to create a unique electronic identity certificate that would allow access to different services over the internet, the issuance of which would be the responsibility not of the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: US labour market in peril as a result of political choices made by the US government
In the current circumstances, while the lockdowns are driving people into joblessness, the alternative would have been for the government to just pay the wages and order people to stay at home. Read here People […]
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