Blogger The General Theorist wonders whether Christine Lagarde’s patchy performance as managing director of the IMF qualifies her for the trickier role of president of the European Central Bank. “The assumption that Lagarde is a like-for-like replacement of Mario Draghi is a huge misreading of her track-record.”
Corruption
Client Earth: Client Earth launches legal action to avert another Dieselgate
Once again the European Union demonstrates that commerce and the money that the car industry is raining upon political parties is more important than the health of its citizens. Once again it is the citizens […]
National Politics
Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe: Neoliberals Against Europe
Why nationalists can appear nationalistic and anti-EU , but still be solid neo-liberals. This somewhat lengthy paper analyses what the rightist populist political parties beyond their rhetoric really stand for. Read here
Climate Crisis
IEA Global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021
Increased use of coal was the main factor driving up global energy-related CO2 emissions by over 2 billion tonnes, their largest ever annual rise in absolute terms Read Here Photo: David Shirreff German lignite mining […]
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