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Ukrainian Business Tendency Survey: Regulations and Excessive Taxation Impede Economic Growth
Economy
Ukrainian Business Tendency Survey: Regulations and Excessive Taxation Impede Economic Growth
According to the Business Tendency Survey, a quarterly survey of industrial enterprises in Ukraine carried out by the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (Kyiv), the biggest obstacles to production growth in Ukraine in May 2015 were low demand, liquidity problems, excessive taxation, and unstable political situation.
War Propaganda and Free Press
Politics, Society
War Propaganda and Free Press
The events during the Christmas Truce 1914 were described by Robert Naiman as “the most morally compelling acts of spontaneous mass civil disobedience in recorded human history”. The anniversary of this date is a perfect opportunity to investigate the power and impact of free press not only in those times, but also in present day when it comes to Ukraine-Russia- conflict.
Hungarian Mishaps and Other Misfortunes
Politics, Society
Hungarian Mishaps and Other Misfortunes
Hungarian government started building a fence on the border with Serbia to ward the immigrants off. The construction, stretching over 170 kilometers, is not in any way a solution to the problem of immigration. All that the fence will do is manifest Hungary’s separation from Europe.
The Eurozone Crisis and EU’s “Sins of Illiberalism”
Politics
The Eurozone Crisis and EU’s “Sins of Illiberalism”
We are witnessing the EU’s declining normative influence in three levels: inner circle of membership, middle circle of prospective members and outer circle of neighbourhood, and is expressed in the primacy of hard core economics, the weaker promotion of democracy, the inefficient political conditionality and the gradual realisation that illiberalism is becoming a threatening part of several national competitive politics.