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Spain had its public debt at the level of 68.5% of GDP in 2011, and then at 85.9% in 2012, and now Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy believes that this year Spain will end with the debt of 94.2% of GDP. Spain is definitely a big problem for the EU.

Last week, between 9th and 11th of October the 4liberty.eu Think Tank Meeting took place in Prague.

September 19th – 22nd was a time when a group of 25 students eager to broaden their knowledge of Austrian Economics met at Chateau Mojmírovce.

4liberty.eu’s team took part in third edition of European Forum of New Ideas in Sopot.

It seems that Merkel is willing to create a big and strong coalition with German socialists and, as it is in politics, it means a lot of compromises in the field of economy, austerity measures and social policy.

However, the party missed the absolute majority and lost its coalition partner, the liberal FDP.

Unfortunately, most governments are not using structural solutions; they are using cyclical solutions, such as greater monetary easing.

In truth, the middle income trap is just another exposition of how government policy can bring an economy to ruin.

The type of institutional system of the EU in the community model should be corrected so that it reflects “ordinary” political systems in liberal-democratic states.

This week Bratislava again had the honour of hosting and witnessing some of the world’s leading experts at the conference entitled The Future of Money 2.0 organised by the F. A. Hayek Foundation in Hotel Falkensteiner on Thursday, 26th September.