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.
EU politics
DatLab Blog: Tenders in EU: how much goes to tax havens?
Tax haven based companies won 5 % of the value of public tenders throughout EU countries in 2006-2017. That yields a rough estimate of 100 bilion EUR being awarded annually to such companies. Read here
Climate Crisis
Politico: EU tries to stop energy treaty exit stampede
EU countries reject the corrupt EU Commissions-led reforms to the Energy Charter Treaty, saying they fail to stamp out protections for fossil fuels. Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Poland have all declared their intention to […]
Economics
France 24: Haiti’s colonial debt burden sparks debate — but official silence
A newspaper expose has reignited debate over the ongoing legacy of debts that Haiti was forced to pay to former colonial ruler France in the 19th century — but the country’s elites are surprisingly keen […]
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