Thousands of demonstrators have protested around the country with blockades in Belgrade and other cities to oppose new legislation on property expropriation and referendums that they contend favor private companies over citizens and the environment.
Corruption
OCCRP: Second Slovak Interior Minister Quits Over Jan Kuciak’s Murder
It’s a model that repeats itself in the Eastern EU nations: Corrupt governments, providing tax-attractive investment for Western European companies (Slovakia is one enormous German car factory), banks, retailers, etc., sending cheap labour to the […]
EU politics
George Monbiot: Referendums get a bad press – but to fix Britain, we need more of them
650 parliamentarians decide for 66 million Britons. Elections are years apart. Is that really democracy asks George Monbiot. There must be a way to improve this system: referendums. The sort of referendum used for Brexit […]
Finance
Larry Elliot: Is the Bank of England losing its way?
From The Guardian Central bank infallibility was always something of a myth. Much of the decline in inflation in the 1990s and early 2000s was due to globalisation rather than the brilliance of central bankers. […]
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