Spain has begun the process of withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty, its minister for the ecological transition said today.
Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: What really caused the financial crisis
Wren-Lewis discusses Tam Bayoumi’s recent book “Unfinished Business” concerning the Great Financial Crisis: “What this analysis by Tam Bayoumi convincingly shows is that finance always has to be carefully regulated, and failures in regulation can […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: The Tories can’t fix the debt crisis: their doctrine caused it
According to Thatcherite doctrine, to overcome their insecurity Britons had to be liberated from the oppressive state and its social policies. This has resulted in a freedom to be undefended from the ravages and iniquities […]
Corruption
ICIJ: Seven EU Countries Labeled ‘Tax Havens’ in Parliament Report
A committee of the European Parliament has found that seven of the European Union’s own member states — including Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg — behave like tax havens. Read here
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