Corporations

The number of data centres in Ireland has grown rapidly in recent years, triggering a debate around fair resource consumption.

Foreign investment into the EU often have political, as well as economic, motivations. Should the EU act on this?

The biotech industry are lobbying to exclude a new generation of genetic engineering techniques from the European GMO regulations.

What can a public tribunal do – such as the Monsanto one – to hold global corporations accountable?

An interview with the economist Yann Moulier-Boutang and Philippe Lamberts, Co-President of the Greens in the European Parliament.

Viewed with suspicion, TTIP hangs over us like a dark cloud. Deemed as a threat to social rights, welfare, the environment and constitutional sovereignty, a civil society resistance movement continues to gain traction. In light of a recent leak by Greenpeace Netherlands further exposing these threats, it is time now to reassess the state of play.

As the Panama Papers revelations lay bare in unprecedented detail how the rich and powerful are avoiding taxes, it is tempting to think of the bankers, financial lawyers, accountants and consultants who assist them in doing so as evil psychopaths.

What is the real choice UK voters are being called upon to make on June 23rd?

TTIP has become notorious over recent years. From Brussels to Berlin, Warsaw to Barcelona, more people know what these four letters stand for today more than ever before.

An interview with Gerhard Schick.