Despite Panama and Paradise Paper revelations, and hubristic political promises, tax havens continue to support tax evasion and looting by global elites. This superb infographic tells the sordid story of a global failure.
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EU politics
NEWS9: 350,000 separatists rally in Barcelona for release of prisoners
Hundreds of thousands in the restive region of Catalonia have protested in Barcelona on Saturday (local time) against the imprisonment of nine separatist leaders for their roles in an illegal 2017 secession bid. Read here
EU politics
Reuters – Spain: Former Catalan leader Puigdemont to run in European election
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, living in self-imposed exile in Belgium, will run in the May 26 European Parliament elections as the leading candidate of Junts per Catalunya (JxCat), his political party said on Sunday. […]
Economics
Ashoka Mody: Italy never should have joined the euro, and the ECB can’t rescue it from its next crisis
Mody’s analysis is not new, but cannot be repeated often enough. The Euro was a project that should never have occurred, and was organised by those who had ulterior motives, not the well-being of their […]
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