Lobbying by the governments of the U.K., France and Germany blocked efforts to introduce a European soil protection policy in 2007, citing costs and potential impacts on housing developments.
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EU politics
Chris Dillow – Stumbling and Mumbling: The intelligent state
The best way to help workers is to create conditions which increase their bargaining power – which give them the option of using Johnny Paycheck’s words: “take this job and shove it”. Read here
Economics
Business Insider: The ‘supply-and-demand model of labor markets is fundamentally broken,’ and that’s why you’re not getting a pay raise anytime soon
Part-time “underemployment” has, statistically replaced the mass unemployment we remember from the 1980s. As Johnson says: “A majority of people who are classified as poor now live in a household where someone is in work. […]
EU politics
ekathimerini: Austria blocking EU Libya sea patrols over migrants, diplomats say
This is the future being offered by coalitions between the far right parties and Greens: Fascists on bicycles Read here
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