Since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, a strong disgust of Alexander Lukashenko was clearly visible in relation to the overall situation in the territory of his southern neighbour. The first official comment regarding the protests on Maidan...
December 14, 2014 4:43 pm / 13 comments
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Italy is crying for attention. And it should get it.
The sick man of Europe – France – is all over the economic papers for almost a year now. But while the critique focused on Holland and his companions,...
November 29, 2014 9:00 am / 533 comments
An online tool created by Institute of Economic and Social Studies shows complete breakdown of member states’ costs and guarantees for the rescue of the Eurozone.
The fiscal storms of 2010-2012 are gone, but the crisis in Eurozone is far...
November 28, 2014 12:35 pm / 3 comments
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“Basic income shall be perceived as building a new system of income distribution suitable to the realities of Poland, of Great Britain, or any other country in the 21st century. In a context where wages will not go...
November 25, 2014 2:12 pm / 3 comments
Less than a decade ago many people were talking how we will be running out of oil soon. Many politicians and experts were constantly spouting “Peak Oil”. Serious faces in reputable conferences were asserting that it is obvious that the world...
November 8, 2014 8:52 am / no comments
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At the beginning the TTIP was received positively almost everywhere, but now many issues have stirred up the negative attitudes that result in attempts to make the TTIP seem unaccountable and undemocratic. Recently,...
November 7, 2014 1:32 pm / no comments
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In a policy analysis “Regulacija medbančnih provizij za kartične plačilne transakcije” Svetilnik evaluated how the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation on Multilateral Interchange Fees (MIFs)...
November 6, 2014 10:08 am / 39 comments
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With Germany at long last imposing a nation-wide wage floor, the country’s slowly conforming to the rest of Europe. Come the crisis and the erstwhile ‘Sick Man of Europe’ became the continent’s economic valedictorian....
October 31, 2014 3:15 pm / 2 comments
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After winning the third elections in 2014 (in April there were national, in May European and in October municipality elections in Hungary) the Fidesz government started/kept on working. As one of their first measures on 21th...
October 28, 2014 10:32 am / no comments
Recent pre-election debates in Bulgarian media have left many people with the impression that the flat income tax is probably the most important “problem” to be solved by the new government. Whether to keep it or to introduce a tax-exempt...
October 21, 2014 9:01 am / 8 comments