‘My grandfather rode a camel, my father also rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will ride a camel’: the Sheikh of Dubai, Rāshid bin Saʿīd Āl Maktūm, said this at the time[1]. The sentence explains very well the
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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers – and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU’s stance on many
Read more →There is a tax haven that doesn’t actually need the money from tax evasion, because it is still among the richest in the world. The United Arab Emirates have set up dozens of areas outside the law, and with these they earn impressive sums of money, but
Read more →His whole life is a cemetery. Of people killed or had killed, of orchestrated revolutions, of ferocious repressions, of intrigues in which he played different parts at the same time. He is one of the most powerful men in the Arab world, and also one of the
Read more →Our planet has fewer and fewer surprises in store, and with globalisation, the extermination of many animal and plant races, the different climatic zones tend to resemble each other more and more. There remain a few paradise islands, not yet destroyed by mining or mass tourism, where
Read more →For years, competitors of PMI Philip Morris International (and especially BAT British American Tobacco) have been claiming that PMI also sells its cigarettes through smuggling. According to many observers, international cigarette smuggling takes place using four main hubs: Greece, South Africa, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Read more →There are names of huge, powerful multinational companies that hardly anyone has ever heard of – like Trafigura. There are sprawling hydras, made up of hundreds of companies in tax havens, whose real owners may not be known, but are estimated to be the 700 managers who
Read more →The earth is not at peace. The New Cold War is no longer the opposition between the United States and the Soviet Union as after World War II, but the conflict between various Arab countries which, thanks to oil, have gone from poverty to opulence in just
Read more →There they are, a whole bunch of human beings. After a long shift and hours of protest, they are exhausted. They are waiting for a decision from the Arab monarchy that can change their lives and remove the modern chains of slavery – which is not made
Read more →On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn’t. Like the attempt by several of Europe’s biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues
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