
National Suicide by Tax: France Leads the Way
A new levy on high-end wealth looks innocent when it is first introduced. However, a simple experiment shows how destructive the ‘Zucman tax’ really is.

A new levy on high-end wealth looks innocent when it is first introduced. However, a simple experiment shows how destructive the ‘Zucman tax’ really is.

Ashur Sarnaya survived ISIS but was killed in Europe for his faith—raising urgent questions about Christian safety and religious freedom in the West.

The center-right government just proposed a very good budget. Ten years too late.

When the next major fiscal crisis hits, Europe’s credit-challenged governments will pull down the banks with them. A crisis bigger than the one 15 years ago can no longer be ruled out.

The French government is facing the same fiscal crisis as in 2012—but this time, the ECB won’t be able to help them.

The EU is ready to sacrifice competitiveness and credibility on the altar of ideology (again.)

Like a rudderless ship, France is sailing straight for the same cliffs that broke the Greek economy 15 years ago. Will President Macron meet his Waterloo in the hallowed hallways of the IMF?

The Commission’s current course increasingly resembles a centralist, homogenizing project disconnected from reality.

By refusing to dissolve the Assembly, Macron apparently doesn’t want to put an end to the French political crisis he himself created.

For the first time, voices are rising to expose the real culprits behind the collapse of the French national education system.
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