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Martin Vlachynsky

ABOUT Martin Vlachynsky
Analyst at the INESS. After previous cooperation, he joined INESS as a new member in 2012. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the Masaryk University in Brno, and subsequently completed his master's degree at the University of Aberdeen. He deals with economic policy, business environment and competitiveness, especially in healthcare, retail and energy. His regular projects include the Bureaucratic Index and the Health for Money Index
Economy
Who Wants Whom
Not so long ago, they were developing a plan to further restrict the movement of Romanians and Bulgarians, and today they themselves are limited by the Swiss decision.
Politics
Greece, Once Again
Last week members of the third strongest and openly neo-Nazi party, the Golden Dawn, destroyed a memorial monument dedicated to a murdered musician, Pavlos Fyssas. They intimidated his family in their house and smashed several bars without any resistance from the security forces.
Economy
Recession and Banks
This treaty was supposed to force politicians to behave more responsibly and not to think only in a time horizon of the next elections, but in a couple of months it became obvious that countries would be breaking also this treaty regularly.
Politics
Giving Out
The Catalonian president has unilaterally declared the date of an independence referendum – November 9, 2014. The Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, supported by the EU president Herman Van Rompuy, has immediately declared that there will not be any referendum.
Economy
Do You Wish…?
The building, based on Gaudí’s unique architecture, has been under construction since 1882 and the expected year of its completion is 2026. The church is interesting not just by its architecture and a huge capacity (15,000 people), but also by the fact that its construction has been financed only from private sources.
Politics
Nuclear Threat
Partaking of public resources in the construction of a new nuclear energy source can result in considerable costs for the taxpayer and energy consumers alike due to high risk of overpriced construction cost and economically unsound operational costs.