This is well and truly a milestone. Interesting are the two nations that abstained. Britain, because it is scheduled to leave the EU and does this on principle and Germany because of its endemic corporate crime. Germany does not have a whistle-blower law. That was very convenient during the diesel scandal. This is unfortunately only in German, but here is an intervention by Germany against the law: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/parlements_nationaux/com/2018/0218/DE_BUNDESRAT_CONT1-COM(2018)0218_DE.pdf
Deregulation
Saša Uhlová: If the Czech economy is thriving, why are we so poor?
It is no wonder that Eastern Europeans do not want any refugees in their nations. Many living in working poverty do not need competition to further depress their wages. The question of refugees in Eastern […]
Media
Jonathan Cook: Social media’s erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future
Facebook, Google and Twitter are not neutral platforms. They control the digital public square to aid the powerful – and can cancel any of us overnight Read here
Economics
Economist Mariana Mazzucato on the Downside of Shareholder Value
“We’ve confused rent with profits, value extraction with value creation.” Read here
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