Fresh food supply chains in Europe’s transnational agribusinesses depend on cheap, non-unionised, and privately managed labour from low-wage eastern European countries.
Austerity
France 24: ‘We won’t give up’: French protesters defiant on day 36 of pension strikes
It is a truly impressive effort by French workers to defy neo-liberal austerity. Read here
Economics
Michel Feher: The Political Ascendancy of Creditworthiness
Michel Feher writes for @PublicBooks on how the logic of credit-worthiness explains the present populist moment Read here
EU politics
Francis Weyzig: There is no link between tax rates and competitiveness!
The Netherlands, already notorious for its corporate tax-avoiding regimen, is about to reduce its corporate tax further. Weyzig explains that “The facts show that corporate taxes are irrelevant for a country’s competitiveness”. It fact, it […]
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