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The crisis in the Euro area started more than four years ago, when the banking crisis collided with the debt crisis and the crisis of competitiveness. Its dramatic stage, full of extraordinary night talks in Brussels, was replaced by a relatively...
Increasingly, we can see that the government declares something, but in practice does the exact opposite. There is not almost a single day without some governmental representative claiming that the priority for government is to tackle unemployment...
We are used to the fact that our parliament is not an autonomous source of legislative power, but merely a puppet in the hands of the government. Thus, a vast majority of the government’s propositions are comfortably passed by its parliamentary...
Government budget for 2014 for Slovakia? Welcome to 1984! That’s how a discussion about the 2014 government budget proposal could be summarised. Reality in stark contrast to official claims – that was the foundation of Orwell’s novel...
It is good that the debate on the expropriation with concerns about a possible reduction in the protection of property has been revived once again. The same scenario took place a few years ago when the first Robert Fico’s administration tried...
These days opponents of austerity measures are winning. General unpopularity of savings is understandable. Unemployment in Europe has climbed to the highest record and economic growth is not sustainable. So, the nervousness connected with making...
Two weeks ago, the government approved a report on the business environment. Last year Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia, together with the Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Slovakia and the Hospodarksy Noviny (newspaper), was a sponsor...
These days a piece of good news is like saffron. The world today is clearly dominated by the negative ones: the financial crisis, debt crisis, Euro crisis, the economic problems of Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Spain and recently Cyprus. Therefore,...
Probably, not only to Cyprus. But first, let us go back in time: the year 1953. The then president of Czechoslovakia declares that monetary reform is not even being considered. Not even two days have passed and the exchange rate declines from...
October 5, 2012 The 1st Global Flat Tax Forum October 4-5, 2012 Bratislava, Slovakia Summary of Conclusions On October 4-5, 2012 The 1st Global Flat Tax Forum was organised in Bratislava by The F. A. Hayek Foundation and The Slovak Taxpayers...
