More than 650 companies are breaking European chemical safety laws, according to an investigation from German environmental group BUND. As a result, potentially harmful chemicals can be found in food, cosmetics, and toys.
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Economics
Valer Simion Cosma, Cornel Ban, Daniela Gabor – The Human Cost of Fresh Food: Romanian Workers and Germany’s Food Supply Chains
Fresh food supply chains in Europe’s transnational agribusinesses depend on cheap, non-unionised, and privately managed labour from low-wage eastern European countries. Read here
EU politics
Bill Mitchell – Britain’s austerity costs are larger than any predicted Brexit losses
“New data now allows us to compute the losses arising from the deliberate strategy of fiscal austerity that the Government has pursued. Guess what? They appear to dwarf all the Project Fear estimates of losses […]
Geopolitics
AP: Palestinian soccer renews call for sanctions against Israel at FIFA congress amid Hamas conflict
Calls for action against Israel in international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas will be stepped up by Palestinian officials at the annual FIFA congress next month. Read HERE
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