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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Economics
Bill Mitchell: We are all entrepreneurs now marching towards a precarious and impoverished future
The mainstream economists keep claiming that fiscal deficits are undermining the future standards of living of workers – an erroneous claim at best. Read here
Climate Crisis
CNN: Portugal’s power production goes coal-free long before deadline
Portugal has gone entirely coal-free, 9 years ahead of the country’s initial deadline to phase out coal, the planet’s most polluting fossil fuel. Read here Wikimedia Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Internationa
EU politics
OCCRP – Belarus: Equipping a Dictator
The EU has funded surveillance and patrol equipment worth more than 2 million euros for the benefit of Belarusian border authorities implicated in rights abuses, a Danwatch and OCCRP probe into EU-funded tenders and contracts […]
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