Simon Wren-Lewis: Which OECD country is the highest social spender?

Mick Lynch, who has retired as leader of the RMT union in the UK, is an example to follow for all trade union leaders in the 21st century. In Tribune. Read the article HERE.

Last night’s EU Council meeting once again failed to agree a rescue package large enough to meet the scale of the coronavirus crisis – and hung Europe’s peripheral states out to dry. Read here

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