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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...
Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, wants to nationalize people’s private pension funds. Is it possible to prevent him from taking this dreadful step? In 1999 Poland, like Hungary and other central European countries, moved from a traditional...
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...
Ever since the start of the financial crisis, Slovakia has been having serious problems with the sustainability of its public finances. Public revenues have been falling down or stagnating, but public expenses have continued to rise. As a result,...
It is very common to mistake social policy for socialism. Yes, there are a lot of countries in Europe where those two words can be almost synonyms, but there is a clear choice – a better and, surprisingly, more just choice. Of course, I am...
Rising youth unemployment in Europe has been a widely discussed issue over the last few years. Although millions of euros have been spent on youth employment programs, the result of these has been limited, to say the least. One of the main reasons...
This year’s election to the Bundestag is a turning point in the history of German, and also probably worldwide, liberalism. The reason for that is the discrepancy in opinions about what the biggest threat for the realisation of liberal ideals...
The party which governed Germany for the longest period of time is disappearing from the Bundestag. A painful result. German liberals from FDP lacked only about 90,000 votes to cross the electoral threshold. They managed to convince only 4.8%...
The future of the present monetary system, or the future of money as we know it today, is a very hot topic, especially if we look at actions of the most important central banks all over the globe. Their present actions are consequences of the...
The Problem of Observing “Growth” Growth: The Holy Grail Why some countries grow while others stagnate is perhaps the most important question in all of economics. Part of the allure of this question comes from the continuing challenge...
