EU accession in 2004 did little if anything to make runaway bankers accountable; on the contrary, the so-called institutional ‘independence’ of the Central Bank making the Governor accountable to the ECB made the bankers more unaccountable.
The EU is providing generous R&D (research and development) subsidies to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the state-owned manufacturer of Israeli ‘drones’ and other ‘battlefield solutions’. Some of the grants are for IAI to adapt its killer robots for use within the EU.
The EU and US will launch talks on a free trade agreement, where both sides have agreed that “everything is on the table” and an aim of producing the biggest trade deal in history.
Cuts to the EU budget will have a direct impact in reducing investment in rural broadband
Update: Feb 9. We are delighted to read that the Netherlands has rejected these opt-outs. That is good news. We use the…