Breaking the deadlock on EU asylum reform? – Jacques Delors Institut – Berlin

Miner Discovers Lithium in Them Thar Hills (of Waste Rock)

                  Miner Discovers Lithium in Them Thar Hills (of Waste Rock)     FT today has an interesting piece on the serendipity of resource exploration.  Major multinational Rio Tinto, a world-class copper and iron ore producer, uncovered an unexpected find at its long-running California boron mine – […]

“Large-scale” VAT fraud costs Europe 30B-60B euros per year

  “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 […]

The most unhelpful Brexit idea so far: UK-EU tariffs

  Just Say No To Uk-EU Tariffs By Simon Lester, courtesy of the Cato Institute   It’s hard to figure out sometimes whether Twitter reflects reality, but I’ve seen some discussion there suggesting that as part of the Brexit negotiations, the UK and the EU may be negotiating about the extent to which they will impose tariffs […]