Marine le Pen and Nigele Farage victories in the European Elections won the titles of most newspapers around Europe. However, Slovakia managed to grab some headline space as well. Slovak voters’ turnout reach EU all time low record – again.
Only...
May 29, 2014 7:40 pm / 1 comment
To the polls! Less of smoked. Bargain in the bank. Sputnik takes off.
Here we go. Leaflets falling out from newspapers and videos falling out from websites – convincing us about the rightness of a particular candidate but also about the...
May 29, 2014 11:02 am / 42 comments
Aleksander Laszek in cooperation with Dominika Pawlowska and Michal Goszczycki.
Having a tax statement in our hand, we can see how much income tax we have to pay for the year 2013. If we than come to a conclusion that this tax is too high it...
May 17, 2014 8:54 pm / 8 comments
This year INESS organized yet the 5th Annual Economic Seminar with the participation of important domestic and foreign lecturers.
On 25 to 27 April nearly 30 students gathered in the mansion Mojmirovce near Nitra, interested not only in Austrian...
May 9, 2014 4:49 pm / 1 comment
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
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
In Slovakia, there is a bill restricting landowners’ property rights on the table. Like elsewhere in the EU, we are also worried about our food. Foreigners, however, are the least of a problem for the Slovak agriculture.
On May 1, 2014, the...
April 15, 2014 11:01 am / 1 comment
Convincing people that dropping prices put them in harm’s way is a marketing bête noire on a par with electing a diehard intellectual to the office of president.
But politicians and their financiers have managed just that. Perceiving deflation...
April 10, 2014 2:24 pm / no comments
Austria on the edge. Italian plans. Higher salaries for officers. Successful elections.
Black sheep are growing in numbers. Austrian Central bank governor Ewald Nowotny admitted that his country might not meet the 3% deficit rule as well. He...
April 2, 2014 1:30 pm / 10 comments
Ghost towns. Spanish minimum. Broken rules.
This week’s headlines from Europe are dominated by the wild situation in Ukraine. The man with a gold-plated toilet brush and a pirate ship is lost somewhere, and so there is green light for...
March 17, 2014 4:00 pm / 1 comment