Michel Barnier, European Commissioner responsible for internal market and services, has rejected all principles based on free market and freedom to choose, and showed he is a communist, or he is just joking with us.
In Drachten, the number of collisions between cars and pedestrians decreased from 36 during 4 years before reconstruction to 4 during 2 years after reconstruction.
(...) there is an interaction between the labour market institutions, there is a need to introduce wide-ranging reforms whose effects will be sustainable and visible for a long period of time.
It is more than clear that we have two blocks in the EU – the austerity block, lead by Germans supported by Finland, Austria or Luxemburg, and the anti-austerity block, lead by France supported by Spain, Italy, and Portugal. Who will win? What do you think?
Eastern Europeans are very much welcomed in this club, in some others - not so much. Germany made it very clear that they would veto any possible accession efforts of Romania and Bulgaria to enter the Schengen area.
The Nordic pension schemes’ primary characteristic is the high effective retirement age, which was achieved thanks to the limitation of the possibility of earlier professional deactivation and to the creation of numerous encouragements for longer presence in the labour market.