Macron’s 2018 Budget fits in the EU pattern: More Money for the wealthy, less for the young, in this case for higher education.
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Climate Crisis
Rupert Read: Inside COP26. It’s like a tornado that may end in a whimper
After a chaotic start to COP26, Professor Rupert Read from the University of East Anglia reports on events in Glasgow. Read here
Corruption
European Ombudsman: The European Commission did not properly consider conflicts of interest when it granted a contract to BlackRock – a big investor in fossil fuels – to advise on the EU’s new sustainable finance agenda for banks
One of the reasons the German government was so keen on having Ursula von der Leyen elected as EU Commission president was to get her out of Berlin, where as Secretary of Defence she was […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: A leopard never changes its spots – Jens Weidmann, ECB President aspirant
So Europe is back to its Franco-German rivalry and emerging out of that process is the unthinkable – Bundesbank President, Jens Weidmann – becoming a front-runner to take over the ECB role. He is a […]
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