Dutch Police Plan to Take Clothes and Watches from People They Deem to be Dressed Too Well
The Dutch police, claiming to be targeting gangs, has a nasty new asset seizure strategy that sound like it is based on racial profiling.
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UK Political Pressures Rise….Because EU Does Exactly What It Has Been Saying It Would Do on Brexit
When you think the UK has made as much of a mess of Brexit as it possibly can, it manages to do even more.
Read more...Trend Reversal of Old-Age Labour Force Participation in Germany
Why has workforce participation increased among older age groups in Germany? Follow the money.
Read more...Latest Tory Brexit Row: Another Bun Fight or a Cage Match?
More Brexit hissing and spitting from the Tories.
Read more...Mastercard Pushes Biometrics, Banks Follow
Mastercard and other financial services providers are aggressively promoting biometrics. Where are the vaunted EU privacy regulators?
Read more...EU Makes Limited Move on Plastics: Too Little, Too Late?
EU requires recycling plastics packaging by 2030, reducing single-use plastics, and restricting microplastics. Too little, too late?
Read more...Another Brexit Casualty: The Channel Tunnel, aka Eurostar
Why the impact of Brexit on Eurostar will literally be a train wreck.
Read more...Brexit: UK Still Refusing to Do Any Thinking Re Trade
The UK is going nowhere fast on Brexit, except it is trying even harder than before to blame the EU for its problems.
Read more...ECB Spawned Financial Dependency That’s Now Very Hard to Undo
The ECB is very eager to withdraw extraordinary support. But among others, a lot of weak banks are hooked on it.
Read more...Chaos in Catalonia Hits Barcelona Housing Bubble
Barcelona wanted to take some air out of its property bubble. Will it wind up getting more than it bargained for?
Read more...Fracking Boom Further Spurs Plastics Crisis
The usual suspects behind climate change are fuelling the plastics crisis and investing to create more waste rather than clean up the mess.
Read more...Next Phase in Forcing Biometric Tracking on Consumers
Ironically, banks in Mexico lead the way.
Read more...Exposure to Brexit in Regions on Both Sides of the Channel
A granular analysis of which regions will lose most from Brexit.
Read more...EU’s Michel Barnier Clears Throat to Tell the UK It Won’t Get a Special Deal…After God Knows How Many EU Leaders Have Already Said That
The EU is still making a lot of noise to get the UK to begin to hear things the EU has been saying since the morning after the Brexit vote.
Read more...Newly-Declassified Documents Show Western Leaders Promised Gorbachev that NATO Would Not Move “One Inch Closer” to Russia
Newly-declassified records bolster Russia’s claim that the US and its European allies reneged on commitments to Russian security.
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