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During the Polish think tanks’ visit to Brussels, I was invited to the opening of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED). The Endowment is located in a small palace – a former embassy building handed over by Poland. This location is...
The Euro crisis is definitely not solved. Greece’s unemployment rate in April 2013 was 26.9% compared to 23.1% in April 2012 and 26.8% in March 2013. The number of the employed amounted to 3,636,042 people. The number of the unemployed amounted...
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...
The Dutch government has ventured on a publication of an important paper. Will our representatives also have enough courage to express their opinion? In Britain, there is a long-term discourse on the issue of setting a boundary to the power...
We have had two announcements of central banks in Europe. The Bank of England with a new boss, Mr. Carney, made the first one. The second one was made by the ECB. The Bank of England mentioned that forward guidance and intermediate thresholds...
Last week’s meeting of EU finance ministers brought about new rules on bank collapses. The new rules are definitely inspired by Cyprus event. Under the new regime, banks’ creditors and shareholders would be the first to take losses....
The week of accusing, voting, and reporting. Berlusconi, French socialists, the Cypriot president as well as the government of Iceland wanted to say something to the world. The Czech prime minister has been hit by a “police-tsunami“ and...
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany is making a decision on the OMT program of the European Central Bank (ECB). In Britain, the bi-polarity of attitudes towards the EU is gradating. Greece is in the top news again with clueless Troika...
Mario Draghi intervened verbally once again and does not hesitate to say anything. He said that the ECB is considering further non-standard monetary policy tools and will deploy them if circumstances warrant. He is also aware of the fact that...
We have all been harassed by petty government officials in daily life – the taxi driver who is harassed by a policeman, the small trader who is harassed by a tax inspector, the small town baker who is harassed by the environmental officer...
