By Christian Hald-Mortensen With delicious animals increasingly under fire for their part in climate change, the market for meat substitutes is growing fast. Old and new brands alike are racing to provide environmentally conscious consumers plant-based or lab-grown alternatives. So how can the discerning buyer separate the meat from the chaff? Christian […]
“Minimum guarantees for a constituent process” By Mariana Canales, courtesy of IES Chile and El Libero 2020 begins under the shadow of October 18. This new year will be shaped by the hangover of the crisis that began with the burning of the Santiago metro, a crisis that seems never to end. Today […]
“Why Businesses Are Building a Better Battery” By Jen Maffessanti, courtesy of the Foundation for Economic Education Batteries are everywhere: in our cars, cell phones, remote controls, laptops, flashlights, toys, tools, solar farms—the list is practically endless. Batteries are amazing, and humans have been using them for centuries. But they have their limitations […]
“MiFID II: Too much consumer protection?” By Benedikt Schmal and Alexander Fink, translation by Anna-Maria Köhnke; Courtesy of IREF The recently updated European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, commonly abbreviated as MiFID II, is supposed to enhance consumers’ protection. Adjustments of regulatory background questions aside, the EU aims to improve “protection of investors by prohibiting the […]
“Weekly Briefing: Attention turns to the structure of next phase Brexit talks” By Anthony Egan, courtesy of Open Europe The UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January is now certain. Later today, the House of Commons is expected to approve the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, before it proceeds through the final stages of […]
“The EU Runs a Large Trade Surplus with Itself – One Reason Is Apparently Large-Scale VAT Fraud” Courtesy of IfW Kiel The EU runs a trade surplus with itself of EUR 307 billion—a figure that should be zero if all transactions were properly reported and recorded. Measurement errors alone cannot account for this […]
“Goodbye freedom, democracy and the rule of law” By HSH Prince Michael of Liechtenstein, courtesy of ECAEF and GIS By declaring a state of climate emergency, the European Parliament opened the door to excessive measures that could ultimately violate individual freedoms and erode democracy in the European Union. The climate debate has become […]
“Women Leaders in Global Health 2019: Powerful Lessons from Kigali” By Dr. Nicole de Paula, courtesy of IASS Potsdam Rwandans are a testimony to human resilience. Following the country’s darkest times, when around 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by ethnic Hutu extremists during the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has emerged as the “Switzerland of Africa”. […]
“460,000 jobs in Germany are linked to exports to the United Kingdom” Courtesy of the IAB Around 460,000 jobs in Germany are directly or indirectly linked to exports to the United Kingdom. Around 60,000 of these are employed in the automotive industry. This emerges from a study published on Tuesday by the Institute for Labor […]
“The H‑2A Touchback Requirement Makes No Economic or Security Sense” By David Bier, courtesy of the Cato Institute The House of Representatives passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 5038) last month. The House bill made some improvements to the H-2A program, which allows farmers to hire foreign guest workers, but it incorporated […]