What will happen to food standards and who will regulate them in Brexit Britain? Are we risking another horsemeat-posing-as-beef type scandal or worse? Sarah Devaney and Adam Leaver explain why they think leaving the EU puts the safety and authenticity of UK food products at risk. Food fraud is typically not an exceptional event carried out by […]
The false promise of EU-US trade talks
On Monday the latest round of talks on the EU-US free trade agreement get underway. Gabriel Siles-Brügge and Ferdi De Ville challenge the proclaimed benefits of this much-vaunted deal. Rather than represent ‘the cheapest stimulus package you can imagine’, they argue the deal is a distraction that is unlikely to significantly boost growth. ‘This is […]