European Commission wants to tackle down on in-app purchases of add-ons for free tablet and mobile games. Commissioner Neven Mimica said, that “consumers, and in particular children, need better protection against unexpected costs”. He’s...
May 8, 2014 5:16 pm / 1 comment
While previously the topic of the future of European Union was a rather intellectual matter related to a fairly small group of academics, in the context of the financial crisis that has shaken the foundations of the Eurozone and the European...
May 6, 2014 3:54 pm / no comments
The annual price of the state for Slovakia increased by EUR 107 (2.2%) and reached EUR 4,811 per citizen.
The Receipt has been distributed by Slovak major opinion making daily SME in late March, just prior to submission deadline for the tax...
May 2, 2014 11:48 am / no comments
Intergovernmental method vs community method (the EU method)
The search for the centre of power within the on-going process of European integration and the analysis of the decision making process in the EU and its development are crucial and...
May 2, 2014 11:37 am / no comments
Social, political and economic regulations are a result of the fact that not all of us are equipped with natural predispositions to the satisfactory degree. We are not even equipped equally. Therefore, we must compensate this inadequacy with...
May 1, 2014 10:07 am / 3 comments
Despite an ongoing crisis in the past few years, the governments of the 28 member states of the European Union agreed to spend 180m Euro per year and emit additional 19.000 tons of carbon dioxide into atmosphere simply to enable the meetings...
April 29, 2014 9:51 am / no comments
Despite the well known scandals and huges losses for the taxpayer caused by German Landesbanken the Länder governments are still engaged in banking. But the German Landesbanken are not in great health, or great spirits. The majority of them...
April 24, 2014 11:15 am / 6 comments
The justice debate is all around us: sometimes it is about justice, sometimes about social justice. But no matter which term is used, the focus always appears to be the same: social justice in our society. A second, closer look shows which...
April 23, 2014 4:15 am / no comments
This week the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third and final section of its massive new climate report Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (WGIII). Without the least delay newspapers boasted that the...
April 22, 2014 9:34 am / 1 comment
In September 2013, 5,584,000 young Europeans (aged 15-29 years old) were unemployed. Looking at the national figures, some statistics seem particularly desperate. In Spain and in Greece, the figures respectively reached 56.5% and 57.3% in July...
April 18, 2014 1:46 pm / 24 comments