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Compared to the previous year, tax burden was on the rise – the average European employee pays more than 45% of income in taxes.

International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde said the U.S. government’s debt reduction plans are too abrupt, which could cause the U.S. economy to contract by over one and a half per cent.

This is a hallmark of protectionism; it doesn’t matter what people want to buy – current producers have to be preserved at any cost, and competition kept away.

Punishing or silencing individual opinions is not acceptable, if they do not conflict with any categories of fundamental criminal law – even if they are clearly offensive or insulting to certain groups.

The world has been slipping further into economic illiteracy over the past five years, with seemingly no country immune.

The European Liberal Forum, in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and the Centre for Liberal Studies, has taken this to heart and formulated policy recommendations with a liberal perspective, seeking to improve the direction and implementation of the region\'s National Roma Integration Strategies

Due to the lack of public finances, a decision has been made to establish a public-private partnership (PPP) which would combine both sectors.

This summit, similarly to the previous one, has showed that our leaders have no vision of the future Europe. Once again, we have a proof that they do not understand the idea of Europe. Or maybe they do understand but they are afraid of changes?

Putting emotions aside, I would like to briefly familiarise you with guidelines and differences between the three bills. But I must admit that to some degree I contributed to creating each of them.

Did we see only Pyrrhic victories or a real overturn in the crisis last year? Greeks remain the worst pupil in the class, Spaniards pretend that nothing bad is happening, Cyprus is not interested and French exodus continues.