“The move – which uses secondary legislation to bring the powers into force – violates the constitutional principle of the separation of powers because the measures have already been rejected by Parliament.”More
Central Bank of Nigeria’s Governor Has Been Suspended and Arrested After Waging All-Out War on Cash
For the moment, it is not entirely clear why Godwin Emefiele has been removed from his post and detained by Nigeria’s secret police, but there are a whole slew of possible reasons.More
Europe’s Strawberry War Heats Up As Germany Sends Cross-Party Delegation to Spain
Strawberry fields forever? Maybe not in water-starved south-eastern Spain.More
WHO Forges Partnership With EU to Create Global Digital Vaccine Passport System
The World Health Organization (WHO) adopts the EU’s expiring digital vaccine passport as a global standard, as we warned would happen over a year ago. More
EU’s COVID-19 Vaccine Procurement Scandal Continues to Grow Despite Deafening Media Silence
“Under Commission President von der Leyen, the tendency of EU institutions (and officials) to evade their due accountability by collectively hiding behind a democracy-defying bulwark of opacity has reached alarming proportions.”More
Investors Up in Arms After Mexico’s Government Clips Wings of Latin America’s Second Richest Man, Germán Larrea
The dirty “e” word — expropriation — is doing the rounds once again in Mexico, this time in relation to a highly strategic stretch of railroad in the country’s south east.More
Why Are US Military Personnel Heading to Peru?
The ostensible goal of the operation is to provide “support and assistance to the Special Operations of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and National Police of Peru,” including in regions recently engulfed in violence.More
Could Argentina Be the Next Latin American Country to Dollarise Its Economy?
As Argentina grapples with an unpayable debt load, triple-digit inflation, severe drought and rising economic hardship, the idea of abolishing the crumbling peso and adopting the US dollar gains ground. More
EU Adopts “Pragmatic Approach” To Sharing Its Citizens’ Most Precious Data With US Department of Homeland Security
“The EU’s own top court has ruled on multiple occasions that the USA does not offer adequate privacy protections for non-citizens, yet the Commission and the member states are planning to open up their biometric databases to the [DHS].”More
US Corn Industry Faces Tough Times In Its Two Largest Export Markets, China and Mexico
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China has sought new suppliers, including fellow BRICS members Brazil and South Africa, to reduce its dependence on US producers, while Mexico is determined to push through with its partial ban on GM corn.More
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