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Jun 22

State aid in Luxembourg

EU Commission finds Luxembourg gave illegal tax benefits to Engie; has to recover around €120 million. The European Commission has found that Luxembourg allowed two Engie group companies to avoid paying taxes on almost all their profits for about a decade. This is illegal under EU State aid rules because it gives Engie an undue …

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Jun 22

Time for the EIB to lead on the clean energy transition

Time for the EU’s bank to lead on the clean energy transition Source: www.counter-balance.org/eibshift/

Jun 21

Asylum applications in Europe: trends and figures

The European Parliament provides infographic for easy access to asylum applications in Europe. See the data here.

Jun 21

EU plans to close the gap in high-performance computing

None of the world’s 10 most powerful super computers are currently in the EU, even though our researchers need them to use big data and advance scientific discoveries. On 19 June Parliament’s industry committee voted in favour of supporting a plan to acquire and develop European high-performance computers that would rank among the world’s top …

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May 30

Markets turmoil and the Italian job

Is there a fierce struggle between France and Germany behind the minuet of the Italian President of the Republic and his refusal to appoint the yellow-green Government? Or, instead, “Salvini and Di Maio are on the Soros’ payroll?”, asks prof. Arrigo, professor of economy (read the full interview on Il Fatto Quotidiano). The “God of …

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May 22

The UKUSA empire behind Cambridge Analytica?

“While the disclosures (on Cambridge Analytica) are being used to bolster hysterical claims of ‘Russian meddling’, a closer examination reveals that the real and far more fundamental threat to democratic rights involves psy-ops programmes run by elements of the British and US deep state”. Read who stays behind the last data breach, on geopolitics.co.

May 15

WW3: Syria bombing and the May’s conflict of interest

Can wars stimulate the economy? The debate is always open. In any case, private portfolios can get benefits for sure. Just like in the case of Capital Group, a £1.4Tn investment firm holding thousands of shares in the world’s biggest Defence Firm, Lockheed Martin (it owned 7,09% of the company in March 2018 -source:  Investopedia– …

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