A powerful news broadcast yesterday covering Parliament’s new ‘Brexit Backslider’ phenomenon, NATO tries to absorb the Ukraine, BBC Panorama’s links to Terrorist organisation in Syria, the police claims of low Grenfell numbers, and the ethics of Uber, and much more…
UK Column co-anchor Mike Robinson and 21WIRE’s Patrick Henningsen with this week’s news round-up. Watch:
Once a country described as a "barren island," Hong Kong has alternatively had the freest and second-freest economy in the world from 1970 to 2014. Their tax and market strategies catapulted them from the bottom of the GDP list to the top, improved life expectancy for its citizens, and ultimately affected China's economic decisions. After such a long success rate, should Britain look to what was once their colony for Brexit inspiration?
The UK will maintain EU free trade deals with the 48 nations of the Least Developed Countries Index, ensuring that poor producers will not have to pay import tariffs in the UK after Brexit.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, left, greets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on arrival at the Europa building in Brussels, March 21, 2017. (AP/Virginia Mayo)
As Brexit talks begin in earnest, the European Union’s army of trade negotiators is finalizing what is set to become their biggest deal yet — JEFTA, a wide-reaching financial agreement with Japan.
The EU’s greatest achievement in 2017, according to its very citizens (courtesy Statista) is “none”.
29% of UK citizens said the EU achieved nothing, while 17% in nine other EU countries noted that the EU did nothing in 2017.
Pay inequality, zero-hour contracts and a sense of disempowerment are driving people to form co-operatives, finds a new report. The sector is strengthening despite an uncertain economy
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One of Germany’s senior defense officials has become the latest Eurocrat to call for a European army…which would mean more defense contracts and military spending for member nations, which means more money in the corrupt pockets of the Brussels elite.
Germany’s national defense commissioner Hans-Peter Bartels called for Nato’s EU members to organise their militaries into a single force, saying…
“In the end, there will be a European army.”
Although I voted for the Labour Party in the recent general election, I’m not disappointed they didn’t win the thing. The explanation for this apparent contradiction is easy to see.
