In a pattern eerily similar to other EU states, the Belgian government stands and falls with its own inability to balance its finances. The price will be paid by taxpayers.
Contrary to widespread myths and errors being produced by right-of-center pundits, the Swedish experience with democratic socialism was not short, and it never ended.
Chancellor Merz has conceded that Germany can no longer sustain its expansive welfare state—a fiscal surrender to economic reality that other nations may soon be forced to replicate.
There is a big need for structural reforms to the Slovakian welfare state. Such reforms require a level of political leadership that Europe so far has only seen in Hungary.
The EU hints that it wants to get involved in health care funding. If it does, it could disrupt national health care models and grow government at the expense of other ways to pay for medical services.
