Showing posts with label EU-Parliament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU-Parliament. Show all posts
April 28, 2016

Why Health Insurance in America Is Like Playing The Lottery ("is the Netherlands's new Privatized Insurance Scheme on same route?)- by Josh Sabey

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Insurance has followed a similar path, and shares more than a few similarities with the lottery. The two businesses hire from the same ...
February 24, 2016

The EU and TTIP: Secret document reveals EU offer to drop 97 percent of tariffs - Justus von Daniels and Marta Orosz

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We now know that the TTIP negotiations entered a decisive phase on October 15, 2015. That’s when US and EU representatives laid their car...
August 10, 2015

Oil Giant Shell Dumps ALEC Over Climate-Change Position - by Ben Geman

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Royal Dutch Shell said Friday that it's severing ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a coalition of companies and co...
July 7, 2015

Eurozone struggles to find joint response to Greek referendum - by Ian Traynor

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Germany and France scrambled to avoid a major split over Greece on Monday evening as the eurozone delivered a damning verdict on Alexis T...
April 28, 2015

EU Parliament: More than 30,000 lobbyists and counting: Brussels under corporate siege

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When the Polish MEP Róża Thun was elected five years ago, she thought the job would be fairly straightforward. She hadn't reckoned wit...
July 5, 2014

Corporate Influence: Poll: 99% of people polled say corporations wield too much power

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In the latest EU-Digest poll which ran through the month of June on: "Do Corporations Have Too Much Influence On Global Governance ?...
May 26, 2014

European Parliament: Results of the 2014 European elections

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Click here for results of the 2014 European elections - European Parliament EU-Digest
February 12, 2014

Britain: Almost as many Brits living in other EU countries than there are EU citizens living in Britain?

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Is a British suicide in the making ? Factcheck EU argues that Graham Watson, a Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament, at ...
February 10, 2014

Economics: How Mainstream Economics Failed To Grasp The Importance Of Inequality - by Jon Wisman

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The magnitude of exploding inequality since the mid-1970s is captured by the following: Between 1979 and 2007,  inflation-adjusted income ...

Denmark - Viking Mentality - Cruelty in Danish Zoo with the killing of baby Giraffe unacceptable

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A healthy young giraffe has been put down at Copenhagen zoo, despite a campaign to save it. Protesters carrying banners gathered outside ...
February 9, 2014

Switzerland votes a narrow 'yes' to cap EU immigration - and shoot themselves in the foot

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Switzerland has voted 50.3 percent in favor of limiting annual migration from the EU, thus ending the policy of free movement within the ...
February 8, 2014

US Diplomacy At Work: Top U.S. Diplomat says to Europe: "Fuck The EU"

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The United States’ top diplomat for European affairs appears to have been caught on tape saying “fuck the EU” in a leaked phone call with ...
February 7, 2014

Tax Evasion: France's Hollande slams Internet giants including Google on tax evasion

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President Francois Hollande said Thursday that France would not continue to tolerate the tax optimisation strategies used by multinationa...

The Netherlands - NSA Spying: Home affairs minister Plasterk under fire over security service phone taps

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Ronald Plasterkerk and the NSA Dutch Home affairs minister Ronald Plasterk and defence minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert were summon...
February 5, 2014

Tax Evasion: IBM dodged taxes by fictitiously moving employees to the Netherlands - by Tim Fernholz

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IBM - the IT services company, under pressure to meet a high earnings forecast, has turned to the ever-malleable tax code for a boost ...
January 27, 2014

World Inc.- Doomsday Scenario: "the alignment of NAFTA - Transpacific Partnership And EU-US Transatlantic Trade Agreement"

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World Inc., A new era could be dawning for the world as capitalism undergoes a major re-alignment The result will be a joyous celebr...
August 30, 2013

Netherlands to wait for a UN decision over Syria

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The Members of the Netherlands Foreign Affairs Commission of the House of Representatives discussed Syria Thursday and they took a dim vie...
August 7, 2013

Dutch Government Planned Student Loan Program Could Fail Based On US Experience

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As the costs of higher education continue to skyrocket across the USA and Europe, the student loan debt bubble in America is reaching unpr...