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August 14, 2023
Heading into the European elections next year, voters will most likely view migration as one of their top priorities.
August 4, 2023
The Italian minister of economic affairs, Giancarlo Giorgetti, has warned that radicalisation of environmental policies could result in a political “crisis of rejection” of their goals. These concerns are all but misguided.
August 2, 2023
Private supplementary health insurance is considered positively by a majority of Slovak politicians and the public.
July 25, 2023
Transparency and accountability are vital pillars of democratic governance. However, the series of scandals that rocked the European Union over the last few years have illustrated the need for the reinforcement of these principles.
July 19, 2023
The last three years have brought many old ghosts to Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic was the biggest health crisis since the Spanish flu, wars have erupted again on European soil after decades of peace, and inflation, a long-gone foe for the bureaucrats in the European Central Bank, has struck again.
June 29, 2023
Equality of opportunity is a key foundational principle of liberalism. The most widely accepted definition of equality of opportunity among liberals is the absence of systematic barriers, such as legal discrimination, which hinder individuals from achieving their life goals.
June 27, 2023
Charles Ponzi became famous in the 1920s for running a $20 million fraud, whereby clients would be promised succulent profit margins from a risk-free investment that later turned out to be paid by the investments of later victims who fell in the con artist’s trap.
June 26, 2023
In my opinion, we often overlook the benefits of the current EU. It is based on constitutional frameworks that, to a very large extent, meet the criteria for a good constitution – as we know them from constitutional economics.
May 31, 2023
After three decades of relative price stability, inflation has returned with a vengeance to the world’s advanced economies.