Category: Analysis

A Look at VOX’s Economic Program

VOX’s program contains a battery of tax-cutting measures. In particular, it aims to incentivise family formation and child rearing by removing the tax burden on families.

Fiscal Forecast: Sweden in the Euro? Part II

A euro-zone membership would put Sweden on a fast track to a fiscal crisis like the one in the 1990s. That would be bad: the country cannot absorb the fallout from repeating its disastrous mistakes from back then.

Paraguay Athwart Liberalism

How long can the South American nation withstand the onslaught from Washington and Brussels?

Fiscal Forecast: Sweden in the Euro? Part I

If Sweden were to join the euro, its economy would be less unstable, but more stagnant. The situation for Swedish households and domestic-oriented businesses would go from bad to worse.

EU Data Act Moves Forward

The Act addresses the question of who owns and has the right to store and make use of non-personal digital data produced in the Internet of Things (IoT), and to the massive windfall such data can represent for industry.

Mercosur Summit to Tackle Imbalances in EU Trade Deal

Mercosur members agree on rejecting the EU’s environmental conditions, but are divided on allowing members to negotiate bilaterally to open up their market, as Uruguay is trying to do.