Just recently the Ministry of Finance issued 5-year external debt in euro, with annual coupon of 4,25% and annual yield of 4,436%. The total value of the issue was EUR 950 million, while the submitted bids stood at over EUR 6 billion. The issue...
August 20, 2012 10:22 am / no comments
Abstract
In Bulgaria, during the years 2000-2009, there has been an increase from 21% to 46% in the employment rate of people aged 55-64 years old. This means that this country has managed to catch up with the mean value for all the members...
August 17, 2012 11:49 am / 1 comment
INESS released English version of The 2012 Universe of Public Expenditures, a poster with a graphical representation of all public expenditures financed by taxes and contributions. It enables one to understand the relationships among the individual...
August 13, 2012 2:39 pm / no comments
The Republikon Institute carried out a comprehensive and in-depth analysis concerning the electoral base of parties in the parliament. Apart from the characterization of voters the analysis examines some special questions in connection with...
August 13, 2012 11:26 am / no comments
The Ministry of Economy finally published the eagerly-awaited plan for amendments to the Law on Protection of Competition (LPC). The newly proposed texts in the LPC are, for all points and purposes, a reaction to the ‘drama’ between the...
August 9, 2012 10:21 am / no comments
During the past decade Slovakia used to be called a tiger in the middle of Europe. We have earned this nickname because we implemented transparent tax system with lower rates which in combination with relatively cheap labor attracted many large...
August 8, 2012 11:12 am / no comments
Since regaining independence some twenty years ago Latvia, a small, open economy has been tormented by three economic crises: first one resulting from the economic transition (institutional change from centrally planned to free market economy),...
August 6, 2012 9:15 am / no comments
Welcome address by Jiri Schwarz,
Chairman of the MPS 2012 Organizing Committee
Dear friends of liberty and individual responsibility,
It will be immense pleasure to welcome you at the greatest festival of classical liberal thinking under...
July 27, 2012 1:50 pm / 105 comments
During the recent years the EU has been trying, via regulations of the EU Commission, to prevent people from consuming harmful food. The EU Commission thus produces legislation regulating food market and many of them, such as extensive law regulating...
July 23, 2012 9:26 am / no comments
The National Statistical Office of Poland (GUS) is financed by tax-payers money and it should extend the range of publicly available statistical data:
- The users of data in Poland do not have a full and free access to the online versions of...
July 17, 2012 10:31 am / no comments