Austerity
Bloomberg: Greek Banks Face Higher Costs Post-Bailout as ECB Ends Waiver
Germany has no intention of letting Greece ever become a sovereign state again. Read here
Bloomberg
Corruption
Bloomberg: Latvia’s Corruption Scandal Is Getting Even Weirder
The EU is looking more and more like a motley collection of money-laundering, tax dodging , mafia states. Is this the European dream? Read here
Corruption
Bloomberg – Latvia: Central Bank Governor Ilmars Rimsevics to Face Prosecution
In the EU you can buy citizenship, laws, and now heads of central banks. Make everything to a commodity and then let the market regulate it. great stuff – especially for the 1% with its […]
Economics
Bloomberg: Italy Picks Another Fight With EU, Targeting Canadian Trade Deal
Trump saved us from TTIP, now Salvini might prevent CETA (the EU-Canadian trade agreement). It is no wonder that people are voting for right-wing populists. They are doing more to defend the interests of EU’s […]
EU politics
Bloomberg: The ECB Deserves This Bout of Political Hot Water
The ECB has no political mandate, but has repeatedly misused its powers to support the agenda of the EU Commission and its hegemon Germany. When it is caught, it cites that it is following rules, […]
EU politics
Bloomberg: Bankers May Have Moved $13 Billion Through Baltic Laundromat
When two EU nations are participating in a money laundering scheme with Moldova and Azerbaijan, then you know that the EU is not only a prominent tax haven, but a centre of money laundering as […]
EU politics
Bloomberg – U.S. on Course to Land on European Tax Blacklist: EU Official
If the U.S. doesn’t agree by June 2019 to exchange the bank account details of non-U.S. citizens with governments around the world, it will be placed on the European Union’s tax haven blacklist. Read here […]
EU politics
Bloomberg: Ex-HSBC Worker Falciani Released Without Bail by Spain Judge
The Spanish government seems to have been foiled by its own justice system. The question is how far the Spanish government is prepared to go to get ahold of two Catalan politicians currently in Switzerland. Read […]
Climate Change
Bloomberg: French Power Company to Close Coal Plants in Chile With a Move Towards Renewables
Obviously it is not all that difficult. Read here