The European Commission, through its Directorate for Research and Innovation, has published the latest results of a comparison of innovation performance among EU member states. Compared to the rest of the world, the countries of the EU as a whole...
March 17, 2014 3:26 pm / 2 comments
Gun crisis: a time to act… starting by looking into the valid data
“Another mass shooting occurred in the United States, this time in…” This line unfortunately recurred in the media 16 times altogether in 2012, leaving 88 victims...
March 16, 2014 3:16 pm / 63 comments
Two think-tanks, The Centre for Economic and Market Analyses (CZ) and F. A. Hayek Foundation (SK) joined to write a study about chosen EU regulations and their impact on economies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The text was presented to...
March 11, 2014 10:41 am / 8 comments
ECB´s declaration to buy any bond on secondary market or Dragi´s “whatever it costs” is still strongly rooted in the minds of investors. Otherwise it will not be so positive for Italy which is again in some political crisis once the Prime...
February 22, 2014 12:34 pm / 2 comments
Twelve hectares of our forests are under threat. But this time, the danger comes neither from greedy bark beetles nor from a destructive storm. It comes from an excessive zeal of one particular bureau – the Bureau for Personal Data Protection....
February 19, 2014 6:02 pm / no comments
Besides strong public statements from the EU Commission bosses that the EU is at a turning point in the crisis, the reality is much worse. You can find one example in Greece. Public Power Corporation has reported last week that many Greek households...
February 6, 2014 1:18 pm / no comments
Index of Economic Freedom was released last week. Slovakia ranked 57th – 15 places down from previous year. The main reason behind a decline of economic freedom in Slovakia was higher taxation, non-flexible labor market regulation, and...
January 26, 2014 6:05 pm / 11 comments
Short description of the problem: Privatization of library services (contract management) to increase their quality.
Country: USA
Type of local government: County
Name of local government: Riverside County
Years of operations: 1997 –...
January 20, 2014 10:52 pm / 2 comments
It was a week of central banks’ announcements. But frankly speaking, nothing new has happened. The ECB let the rates unchanged, as did the Bank of England. Mario Draghi admitted that euro area growth is still under question, and that we...
January 19, 2014 12:34 pm / no comments
A story that is riveting Europe, if not necessarily much of the world, continues to play out on the streets of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. President Viktor Yanukovych stunned the European Union a week away from its Summit in Vilnius at the end...
December 23, 2013 6:29 pm / no comments