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There’s lots of interesting material in the opinion poll released to mark the launch of the new CLASS think-tank today, and there will no doubt be a lot of ...
The European Parliament voted today – by a thumping 487 to 152 – for a Europe-wide Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) to be implemented by 2014, as part of a wider ...
So, now the European Commission has decided that the Robin Hood Tax would be pro-growth after all (provided even a small proportion of revenues are invested in creating jobs). Given where the UK economy is these days, that’s kind of case closed. And given the ‘growth at all costs’ neo-liberal mantra of the last...
This blog originally appeared on Liberal Social Forum.
The day after tomorrow, European leaders are due to sit down together at a hastily arranged informal summit, called by the EU president Herman Van Rompuy to discuss the question of the times: How do we create growth?
One of only three items on the agenda is the...
