Daily Telegraph needs to apologise to Eastern Europeans for anti-semitism slur

Under the heading “London deserves a better mayor” www.telegraph.co.uk published an article last Saturday online, in which the author alledges that anti-semitism might be a vote winner under Eastern Europeans living in London. To start of with the author assumes that Ken Livingstone would be happy to be labled an anti-semite and goes on to say:

“Perhaps he felt that accusations of anti-Semitism would help him with Muslim voters; he may even believe that they will play with the many Eastern Europeans who, as EU citizens, are entitled to vote for him.”

I think this is outrageous. The Telegraph should apologise to Londoners of Eastern European origin immedeately.

Please see the full article by following this link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/26/dl2601.xml

and be as outraged as I am.

PS: An apology to Ken and London Muslims would be in order as well.

Add comment | April 29th, 2008by David Schoibl

UBM fleeing UK for corporate tax reasons - make the case for EU tax harmonisation

United Business Media UBM have announced that they will relocate their holding company for tax reasons to Ireland and they might not be the last to flee a “high tax UK”, as they might put it. There is a race to the bottom on corporation tax going on across Europe. The competition of regulatory and tax regimes across Europe leaves national governments no choice but to follow suit. A very low corporation tax in Slovakia led Austria to lower its corporation tax and now German Laender bordering Austria are lobbying their national government to lower corporation tax in turn. Unless we start discussing (corporate) tax harmonisation on the EU level this race to the bottom will continue and the tax burden on low income households will increase and further pressure will be put on national and regional governments to cut public spending. Member states goverments will only be able to regain sovereignty on (corporation) tax and wider macro-economic issues when they start collaborating on tax on the European level.

Add comment | April 29th, 2008by David Schoibl