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Long live the economic crisis?
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There is an upside to the global recession: greenhouse gas emissions are expected to fall with 3% this year. This would lead to emissions in 2020 being 5% lower. This contrasts to a 60 year history of an average 3% growth in emissions a year. While t...
Where did all our money go?
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Governments around the world reacted with a spending-frenzy facing a triple crisis of the worst economic downturn since the second world war, energy insecurity and climate change. Never before so much public money was invested in such a short time. B...
Green jobs on the rise – world climate business revenue $2 trillion by 2020
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The worldwide New Green Deal is becoming a reality. Global revenues from all climate-related businesses are now worth a stunning $530 billion. It could even exceed $2 trillion by 2020. In Europe 3.4 million jobs are already directly related to the lo...
Starving in Brussels
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The past months many angry workers voiced their discontent with workers from other European countries ‘stealing’ their jobs. The economic crisis is taking its toll on employment and public opinion. However understandable this opinion is, policy m...
Sarkozy : an imprudent populist or a cunning strategist ?
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Eastern Europe has been stealing jobs by using their people to produce French cars being sold to French people. That is going to stop with me. This is the baseline of Sarkozy’s remarks in the last couple of days. But as we have seen in the 1930s, p...
How to read EU blogs?
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A novelty has appeared in the European blogosphere: bloggingportal.eu. As they themselves put it, it could become a "new way to read blogs about EU affairs". The blogaggregator syndicates the content from currently 278 blogs about Europe and the Euro...
Eurocrats against Entropa
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The European Assocation for Eurocrats (EAE) today issued a Press Directive strongly condemning the process by which David Černý’s Entropa is selected. Divad Ynrec, spokesman of the AEA today stated that ‘Entropa is a dangerous violation of the...
Starved by the rich : the cult of organic food imposed on Africa
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Last week I met up with a friend who is passionate about organic food. No pesticides for her, no large industrial farms and certainly no Frankenstein food. She is not alone in this, the movement for the promotion of the so called organic food gains m...
The Myth of Free Trade
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Electric Politics with an interesting and provocative post: “Protectionism can be a good thing. Protectionism, in fact, is the only way that a developing country can become developed. And, I daresay, it’s the only way an industrial country like t...
The russian future with Dmitri Medvedev: a look at the inner mechanisims
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The Times published yesterday 2 very interesting articles that give a good insight into the consequences of the Russian elections that have put Dmitri Medvedev in the presidential seat formerly occupied by Vladimir Poetin. The first article “fr...
Independent Kosovo faces an uncertain economic future.
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“From today onwards, Kosovo is proud, independent and free,” Prime Minister Hashim Thaci announced in an address to parliament this sunday. Hearing those words, tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians came on the street to celebrate. Howeve...
Corporate tax race to the bottom: is harmonization on EU level the answer?
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1. The reality of corporate tax competition Both industrialised and developing countries will face a major public funding crisis if governments don’t stop the race to lower business taxes, a report from the International Confederation of Free Trade...
gulzigheid
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Het is goed dat er nog oplichters als Jérôme Kerviel bestaan. Op zo’n momenten voelt de eerlijke broodwinner zich immers opgelucht, omdat de staat hem beschermt tegen de kwade en onaantastbare grootverdiener. Niet dat iemand al van hem had gehoor...
Globalisering en mijnbouw: de andere kant van de medaille
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Als resultaat van de oorlogen en spanningen in het Midden-Oosten stijgen de energieprijzen tot ongekende hoogten. Sommigen beweren dat voor het bezit van energiebronnen recentelijk zelfs een oorlog is ontketend. Ontwikkeling en welvaart worden echter...
