No more tar and nicotine info on packs
A draft law to make smoking less attractive to the young by banning the use of “characterised” flavours such as strawberry or menthol in…
Ralph T. Niemeyer
Make European elections more European, says Constitutional Affairs Committee
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Ballot papers for the 2014 European elections should list European political parties as well as national ones, said the…
Investment Protection becomes “Human Right”
by Ralph T. Niemeyer Just when Greece is expecting to be handed the next lifeline of €30 billion from the European Union and International…
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…
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…
Globalisation? Which Globalisation?!
100 years ago the World was as “globalised” as nowadays, yet it led to catastrophe by Ralph T. Niemeyer It became fashionable in the…