Social Democrats' group leader Lena Hallengren said the parties have not been able to agree on a solution to the offset chaos in the Riksdag. A parliamentary committee led by former Supreme Administrative Court President Mats Melin has proposed removing the threshold for anonymous donations to political parties, according to the Swedish Government. The committee also proposes a ban on foreign donations, with exceptions for small donations related to international cooperation and EU institutions.
Additionally, the committee proposes a new law requiring transparency in contacts between political decision-makers and lobbyists, and that political parties must report costs, assets, and liabilities, not just income. The committee further proposes requiring consent from members for contributions from labor market organizations to political parties. The government intends to refer the entire report for consultation.
A separate Swedish government inquiry has examined whether Sweden should ratify the third optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to the Swedish Government. The inquiry was led by former Court of Appeal Judge Anita Linder. In the eurozone, German and French banks held so much Greek debt that a Greek default would have bankrupted them, according to Rolf Englund citing economic analysis.
European leaders feared that if Greece were allowed to exit the euro, the entire euro experiment might be questioned, Englund said. Greece's debt was expected to grow by around €330 billion during 2013, according to Der Spiegel. S.
at Bretton Woods, Bloomberg reported. According to Bloomberg, Germany will soon have to choose between a Marshall Plan for the south or an economic and political breakdown of the euro zone. S.
Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew issued an ultimatum to Wall Street to adopt Dodd-Frank rules. In Britain, there is no government backstop for flood insurance, according to Gillian Tett in the Financial Times.
S. National Flood Insurance Program was created in 1968 because flood hazard was considered uninsurable by the private sector alone, Tett wrote. In academic and cultural perspectives, the book 'The Muslim Question in Europe' by Peter O'Brien discusses political controversies and public philosophies regarding Muslims in Europe.
A call for papers for the Critical Entrepreneurship Studies stream at the Critical Management Studies conference in 2017 questions hegemonic notions of entrepreneurship, according to the Critical Entrepreneurship Studies community. A book based on interviews with active and former jihadists argues that jihad changes jihadists through socialization in jihadist groups, according to the author.