America's classroom culture wars broke out again this week after a vote by the Texas Board of Education to rewrite the standards for high school social studies courses in the largest single US market for textbooks

All globalisation, removal of borders, free movment and free market does is result in the homogenisation of peoples. Fit in with the new “global culture” (as Brown was talking about today) or we’ll exclude and sanction you. Language, traditions, tribe and beliefs are replaced by soap-operas, blue jeans, McDonald’s and billboards featuring airbrushed models. If that’s ...

Business groups and civil society relished the chance to grill the EU's new internal market commissioner, French politician Michel Barnier, at an event in Paris organised by EurActiv France. Barnier made clear that he was not a fan of self-regulation.

President of the European Central Bank throws his support behind tougher regulation and oversight of the huge credit default swap market

Michel Barnier, the European commissioner in charge of financial market regulation, said he would propose controls to curb speculative trading in credit default swaps, (CDS) a form of debt insurance that has been blamed for worsening Greece’s economic problems. His measures will target so-called naked

EU finance ministers approved on Tuesday (16 March) a directive to clamp down on VAT fraud in carbon markets by allowing member states to shift the levy to the end user.

Despite today’s improved unemployment figures, it’s still not plain sailing for the 9.4 million low earners in work. Continued falls in employment levels, growth in long-term unemployment, expectations of a sluggish economic recovery in the private sector and a squeeze on public sector activity and employment mean that sustained improvements in the labour market remain

R. Murphy Esq: Brussels’ logic is that by betting against the euro, hedge funds are driving its value down, so making it harder for hard-pressed states like Greece to balance their books, as the market is demanding. This then creates a vicious cycle of more government spending cuts being required in Greece,

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor doggie a bone, When she got there the cupboard was bare because she had spent 13 years creating public sector non-jobs for people with worthless degrees. So the poor little doggie shat in her bed. ------------------------ This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed at home, This little piggy had roast beef, And this little pigg...

Gary Gensler, head of the US agency that regulates a large part of the derivatives market, tells the European parliament he does not believe a ban on 'naked' short selling of credit default swaps would be effective