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Introduction The 10% flat income tax was introduced in Bulgaria in 2008, and the Institute for Market Economics (IME) was one of the major proponents of its implementation. In our opinion, the introduction of the flat tax has been one of the...
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...
Entrepreneurs and corporate leaders of small and large businesses from Sweden, Germany and Great Britain have spoken. Their message to the member states and EU officials is clear: we either reform or we are condemned to an economic downfall. Among...
This year a group of Lithuanians has initiated a referendum on banning land sale to foreigners. For such a referendum to be held, the group needed to collect at least 300,000 signatures of Lithuanian citizens in three months. In December the...
At the last weekend of October, Parliament elections were held in the Czech Republic. Before the elections, my colleague Ales Rod explained in this article the background leading to these early elections and commented on the then not very optimistic...
Election campaigns are like New Year’s resolutions – many things are promised, a fraction of them are implemented. One is almost shocked when some evidently populist program points are still discussed, or even about to be implemented after...
When one follows the struggles of European leaders with Putin in the dispute about Ukraine, it begs the question whether cynical dictators will always beat democratic leaders? Putin needs Ukraine in the Eurasian Economic Community created in...
In September of this year, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk announced his intention to undo pension system reforms and seize parts of the mandatory private pension funds. If implemented, this plan will lead to a pension fund nationalization...
In 2013, Civil Development Forum added estimates of implicit public debt to the Public Debt Clock, which was launched three years ago. Our decision to display the value of implicit public debt was induced by the introduction of the European...
The coalition of many non-governmental and students organizations including members of 4liberty.eu network: Civil Development Forum, Liberté! and Project: Poland has launched the campaign against the nationalization of Polish pensions funds....
