Nobody embodies the EU’s elite-driven nature better than its incumbent president, Ursula von der Leyen. And no action of hers embodies its warped excesses better than her decision, in April 2021, to single-handedly sign off on a €35-billion deal for the purchase of 1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. According to one analysis, the price per dose she agreed was 15 times higher than the cost of production — meaning that the EU overpaid the vaccines by tens of billions of euros.
EU politics
El País: Spanish sailor faces 30 days in custody for signing declaration against Franco
Maybe Yanis Varoufakis and DiEM will be too late to reform the EU and prevent the rise of fascism. Read here
Economics
Chris Hedges – USA: The Ruling Class Broke the Railway Strike—Because That’s What It Means to Be the Ruling Class
The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class. Read Here
EU politics
Richard Murphy – Unless the government gets cash to people very, very soon there is going to be rioting
And if the government does not appreciate that fact then the reality of it will hit home very soon. That is because mothers (in particular) who cannot feed their children first of all steal and […]
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