It may seem unfair that someone who does not comply to given rules can effectively buy its way out of trouble. On April 7th it was publicized that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), which is struggling to comply to the EU’s greenhouse gas policy, spent hundreds of millions of euros to buy CO2 emission rights from
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The positive effects of the introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) are often overshadowed by discussions between its member countries. The aftermath of the Eurozone crisis has divided the European monetary power block, with both parties slinging mud at each other. The North (lead by ordoliberal Germany) lampoons the South, where especially Italy is
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“The Uninhabitable Earth”
David Wallace-Wells describes himself as “quite an unlikely environmental alarmist”. He started exploring the issue of climate change not as an environmentalist but as a journalist who was baffled with the bleak prospects of climate change. Mr. Wallace-Wells has written for several current affairs magazines and at the moment he is a deputy editor and
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