Internal market and consumer protection/Public health and food safety
MEPs quiz Commissioner-designate Neven Mimica on key consumer priorities by Martha Devon MEPs quizzed Croatian Commissioner-designate Neven Mimica on EU…
Public pensions must ensure decent living standards, MEPs say
by Linda Sommerschütt The economic crisis and the challenges of an ageing population have revealed the vulnerability of both funded and public pension…
Mephisto rules
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Conservatives usually uphold tradition, culture and values but, if Humanism and Classicism are really in their hearts, why could they…
Landesbanken under attack
A Comment by Ralph T. Niemeyer For many years, German public Sparkassen and Landesbanken had a bad reputation, as they were branded…
Why not hand over taxpayer’s funds directly to private banks?
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Whatever has been said about Euro-bonds, being rejected by the German government, has been proven illusory by the fact that…
Sachs, Deutsche, Rothschild, HSBC, UBS ruined Greece
by Ralph T. Niemeyer One thing becomes clearer every day: the debts won’t be paid back. nor those of debts Goldman Sachs, Deutsche…
The true secret of Fukushima
By Ralph T. Niemeyer Until 11 March 2011, Fukushima was associated with luck – the name means ‘good-fortune-island’. Scenic routes along the coast attracted…
The Great Depression – this time in technicolor
by Ralph T. Niemeyer American banks prepare for the state bankruptcy of the United States of America, the Financial Times writes and suggests…
WWW I
new ressource on the bloc: water By Ralph T. Niemeyer Western Free Democracies have just begun what future generations might call World Water…
Africa continues to feed France
Analysis 14 African countries forced by France to pay colonial tax for the benefits of slavery and colonization. All I knew about this…