Leigh Phillips

Recent Articles by Leigh Phillips

July 22, 2010

Hungary Tells the IMF to Take a Hike

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is sticking to his government's position that the country will not impose further austerity measures and has said that there is ...

July 14, 2010

European Gambit Aims to Ease GMO Rift

In a potentially risky gamble to break an EU impasse over the cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) which has lasted more than a decade, the European ...

July 5, 2010

Europe May Rate Tourist Spots for Quality

The world's top chefs would happily throw their grandmother under a Eurostar train to have their resto or bistro blessed with the award of a Michelin (MGDDY) star. Now...

June 29, 2010

Corporate Tax Rates Fall Again in Europe

European governments cut corporate taxes in 2010, continuing years of decline in taxation on capital and a shift towards taxes on consumption, and, to a lesser extent,...

June 28, 2010

EU Delays Action on Carbon Tax

European commissioners are in a holding pattern over whether to introduce a tax on carbon across the EU, a proposal that if backed by the EU executive could prove to ...

June 18, 2010

Iceland Faces Uphill Battle to Join EU

European leaders have finally given the green light for Iceland to begin EU accession negotiations, but the Dutch Prime Minister has indicated it will be hard for the ...

June 14, 2010

Europe's Economy 'Returning to 1930s'

The chief of Europe's trade union chiefs, John Monks, has warned that the austerity packages being imposed across the bloc will send the continent "back to the 1930s."...

June 1, 2010

EU Looks to Tighten Anti-Smoking Policy

Cigarette packaging and advertising could soon become still further restricted across the European Union, with the bloc's health commissioner saying on Monday (31 May)...

May 28, 2010

Google Data Gathering Mishap Draws Slap

In the wake of an admission by internet search giant Google (GOOG) that it had accidentally collected data from unencrypted wifi networks in people's homes while its ...

May 20, 2010

Europe Sets Five-Year Internet Strategy

Half of Europeans subscribing to ultra-high-speed broadband by 2020, bringing an end to the phenomenon of 'digital virgins' and the creation of a European cyber-attack...