Eastern Europeans are very much welcomed in this club, in some others – not so much. Germany made it very clear that they would veto any possible accession efforts of Romania and Bulgaria to enter the Schengen area.
The Nordic pension schemes’ primary characteristic is the high effective retirement age, which was achieved thanks to the limitation of the possibility of earlier professional deactivation and to the creation of numerous encouragements for longer presence in the labour market.
Recent Italian general election has triggered fears not only at a European level, but worldwide.
There is a strong correlation between the level of spatial development regulation and the real estate price.
The flat tax countries are under a growing pressure to revert their flat tax reforms and necessary fiscal consolidation is used as an excuse for such requests.
Now, we are interested in the Italian election. The crisis ends. The new sick man of Europe. Draghi will take care. The situation in Spain is electrifying.
The thing that was really important was how much money each of the leaders brings (in the so called “envelope”) to their countries, and not the answer to the question – where will Europe be in 2020?
Let’s begin with currency wars once again. Why? It is a real current issue.
INESS – the Institute of Economic and Social Studies has processed the available data about investment subsidies and published a policy paper Investment subsidies – creation of new wealth or just redistribution of the existing?
Ireland is an exceptional case. France is an exceptional case. Bad news is here to stay. And we might even question the EU funds.
