Before the law, all people should be equal. Thanks to EU austerity and neo-liberalism, laws too have become a commodity, which one can buy, as in the case of Golden Visas. This allows rich foreigners to buy residency in an EU member state, giving them all the advantages of citizenship. In Portugal, the Social Democrats (who else!) with the right wings parties, are giving this a new spin by creating the Green Visa (500,000 Euros per person).
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Oh Scotland, don’t you dare!
Because the Scottish natioanl Party is for independence from Britain, the Scots think the SNP is a letist party. Odd, the party has never passed leftist policy into law, although they control the Scottish parliament. […]
EU politics
Spiked: The dangers of anti-populism
An interesting take on what is the opposite of “populism”. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: EU deliberately subjugates prosperity to maintain its neoliberal ideology
The European Union deliberately chooses to subjugate economic prosperity and the well-being of people (jobs, incomes, savings, etc) to maintain an adherence to an ideology that purposely redistributes real resources and incomes to the top […]
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