Politico: Macron’s party changes name to ‘Renaissance’

The agreement fails to include strong and binding safeguards that ensure protection of, and respect for, labour rights. Read here

From The Guardian If Europe’s social democrats wish to save themselves from extinction then they will have to become, well, er…, social democratic. Read here

 Steve’s paper exposing the dreadful work on climate change done by William Nordhaus (and his band of like-simpleminded Neoclassical economists) has now been published by the journal Globalizations. The link is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2020.1807856