Euros & Dollars: Europe’s Public Finance Crisis
Inflation has given tax revenue an artificial boost over the past couple of years. Price stability is back now, yet government spending keeps growing at unsustainable rates.
Inflation has given tax revenue an artificial boost over the past couple of years. Price stability is back now, yet government spending keeps growing at unsustainable rates.
EU’s rigid regulations and unfair trade deals persist as unresolved issues.
The EU is in for a fiscal framework showdown between reformists and abolitionists. Who wins? Europe’s economic future hangs in the balance.
NATO is a defense insurance program. What happens to your insurance policy when you don’t pay your monthly premium?
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.
In a nefarious attempt to grab power, the EU keeps pushing for its own tax revenue—and to be allowed to spend a lot more money.
The plans would see a massive transfer of competences from a national to an EU level.
“Fanatic” Eurofederalists in the Parliament, supported by a large leftist majority, would reduce the role of member states to that of a German state or Swiss canton, MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski explained.
The liberal-green initiative would give more legislative power to the European Parliament, scrap unanimity in the Council, and establish EU citizenship complete with voting rights, universally set at age 16.
The bloc is facing internal tensions regarding what direction to take once they have the power that puts BRICS on par with the West.
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