Interview with French economist Pascal Salin: “A tax on corporates is a tax on employees and...
Pascal Salin (born in 1939) is a prominent French economist, professor emeritus at the Université Paris-Dauphine and a specialist in public finance and monetary...
Trouble within the ECB
The important policy strategy adopted by the European Central Bank this month wasn’t decided without a fight. Especially last week’s decision on its so-called...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 8 – with former Hungarian MP Zoltan Kesz
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New study compares tax freedom days in Europe and around the world
A new study by French think tank Institut Économique Molinari and Americans for Tax Reform Foundation provides a new country-by-country comparison of the tax...
The ECB is no longer the ECB
By Alex Sassen Van Elsloo, a Dutch finance expert and research consultant
When the euro was being designed, a lot was already wrong. The designers...
The Recovery Fund will not unleash a new economic bonanza across Europe
By Dan Kral, Europe Economist
By now, 24 out of 27 governments have submitted their national recovery and resilience plans to unlock funds from the EU’s...
“Fit-for-55” is an irresponsible experiment with our economy
By Dutch MEP Rob Roos (JA21, ECR), formerly an entrepreneur in the energy and telecom sectors
The success of our Western society has been determined...
Why a global minimum corporate tax rate may never be implemented
By Matthias Bauer, Senior Economist at EU trade and economic policy think tank ECIPE
Following fresh calls from the Biden administration to raise corporate tax...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 7 – with rates trader Fabian Wintersberger
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The EU is rewarding bad behaviour in its neighbourhood
This week, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen repeated her sharp criticism of Hungary's legislation banning ‘displaying or promoting” homosexuality to people under 18....

















