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.
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: The EMU reform ruse
This is a very long read, but there is probably no one in the world who knows in such detail how and why the EU functions as Bill Mitchell. Part 1 Part 2
EU politics
Catalan News: In Catalonia, it’s a not-so-happy anniversary for the Spanish constitution
The Spanish constitution is certainly not serving the interests of the Catalans. Instead it has become an sntrument of foreign repression. Read here
Economics
Eurostat: Industrial production down by 1.8% in the euroarea and by 1.2% in the EU
Among Member States for which data are available, the largest monthly decreases were registered inSlovakia (–5.3%), Germany (–5.0%) and Luxembourg (–3.9%). The highest increases were observed inLithuania (+11.3%), Estonia (+5.1%), Bulgaria and Greece (both +5.0%) […]
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