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Since November 2013 the world has turned its gaze towards Ukraine. The country, which in its attempt to gravitate towards the West has been trying to break away from the Russian impact, is now on the brink of a civil war. What Ukraine can do...
Photo: Wikimedia Commons With Germany at long last imposing a nation-wide wage floor, the country’s slowly conforming to the rest of Europe. Come the crisis and the erstwhile ‘Sick Man of Europe’ became the continent’s economic valedictorian....
Photo: Flickr user Victor1558 / Creative Commons From time to time, our media report that Slovakia has once again fallen in another competitiveness ranking. The papers write about it for a day or two, the TV stations show a few reports, opposition...
At the quarter-century mark of the Visegrad states’ freedom from the USSR, Johannes Wachs examines the Group’s role in today’s European Union. 2014 marks both the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the tenth year...
Several parts of Slovakia experience problematic coexistence of Roma people and majority population, without any successful solutions in sight1. As a result, there is growing dissatisfaction of majority living in the areas with Roma minorities,...
The “Flat Tax Era” in Slovakia came to a definite end on 1st January 2013. Corporate tax rate of 23% (highest in the whole Central and East European Countries region by the way) became valid instead of the 19% rate. This was considered...
INESS released an English version of The 2014 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...
Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Thanks to Young Innovative Entrepreneur Contest announced by The Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia and Junior Chamber International, a wider Slovak publicity is now aware of a numerous group of young interesting...
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...
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...
