Watching the trials of the Catalan independentists now taking place at Spain’s highest court in Madrid, I have been reminded again and again of a scene from director Hal Ashby’s marvelous 1979 movie Being There.
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EU politics
Amnesty International – EU: Diminished “Operation Sophia” abandons refugees and migrants to reckless Libyan Coast Guard
We need to apologise. We had assumed that a scandal of this dimension would be covered by European mainstream media and thus felt we need not post an article. How wrong we were. Read here
EU politics
Common Space – Scotland: ‘This is not a fight about party politics’: Women’s equal pay strike rocks Glasgow
WOMEN council workers across Glasgow today began a two-day strike over a pay dispute with Glasgow City Council stretching back 12 years. Read here
Finance
Jan Fichtner: The Cayman conundrum: why is one tiny archipelago the largest financial centre in Latin America and the Caribbean?
A good summary of the role of the Cayman Islands as a tax haven. Hopefully that will start to change in 2020 after the UK Parliament passed a law imposing public registers of beneficial ownership […]
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