They point out that Elgin had a permit from the Ottoman occupying forces in Athens to take what he liked from the Acropolis — which, they insist, gave him the right to own and to sell on whatever he removed…..Imagine if the Nazi occupying forces in Paris had granted some gentleman a permit to remove statues from the Louvre. Or if Putin’s men in Mariupol were, today, to grant a visiting antiquities dealer a permit to remove priceless artefacts from a local museum. The very notion that these permits bestow secure property rights over the removed artefacts is an affront to every decent person worldwide.
Climate Crisis
Global Witness, Corporate Europe Observatory – Piping gas into the Parliament
Rapporteur’s pro-gas views and refusal to reveal lobbying raise alarms over TEN-E revision Read here
EU politics
Politico – Brussels approves Germany’s mega spending plan
EU spending limits are only for nurses and hospitals, not bombs, and only for countries like Greece and Portugal, not Germany. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Nick Shaxson: No, corporate tax avoidance is not legal
So tax avoidance is perfectly legal: it’s evasion that’s illegal (and criminal)? Not so fast. Read here
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