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.
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen: Nordhaus can have his Nobel, but we shouldn’t let his theory gamble with humanity’s future
William Nordhaus’s Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018 “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” is safe. But the world isn’t. Read here
National Politics
Middle East Eye: UK: Labour Party bans words ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid’ from conference
When many people voted unhappily for Labour to get the Tories out, they knew it had become a shite party, but most never imagined it would be this bad Fifteen thousand people marched in protest […]
Climate Crisis
Young Witness: Oil, equality on Norway election agenda
Norwegians have gone to the polls for the first of two days of voting in a parliamentary election dominated by the widening gap between rich and poor, climate change and how the oil-producing nation should […]
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