Catching up with events in Turkey
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![President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) in Istanbul, Turkey on 24 January 2020 [Arif Hüdaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Merkel-20200124_2_40489205_51485211.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Corruption
Romania-Insider.com: Former Romanian interior minister sentenced to 5 years in prison
Romania has been a member of the EU for 10 years. Corruption remains endemic, but that does not appear to bother the EU in the least. Read here
Austerity
Robert Skidelsky: How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover
After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever. Read here
EU politics
Robin McAlpine: Escaping corrupt London finance is one of the biggest opportunities of independence
Common Weal director Robin McAlpine argues that Scottish independence offers the only escape from a system in which bankers win every time Read here
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