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France Stops Fewer Migrants, Despite Brits Footing the Bill

Tamás Orbán August 20, 2023

The British taxpayers pay £480 million for increased French border patrols along the Channel, yet 20% fewer illegal migrants were stopped this year before making their way to the UK.

Meloni and Salvini Clash After Bungled Bank Tax Plan

Thomas O'Reilly August 11, 2023

Italy’s ruling coalition was left licking its wounds after a shock announcement to tax excess bank profits sent markets into a tailspin.

Hollowing Out in Slow Motion: Germany’s Middle Class Contracts

Tristan Vanheuckelom August 9, 2023

With a marginal burden of around 50% of gross income under Germany’s taxation and transfer system, people with middle incomes effectively end up with only half of every euro they earn, a study shows.

UK Civil Servants Wangle Their Way to Six Figures

Michael Curzon August 9, 2023

British bureaucracy has added more workers in the past seven years than the entire regular British Army.

A Look at VOX’s Economic Program

Carlos Perona Calvete July 18, 2023

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.

China Set To Benefit As Global South Lobbies Against EU Carbon Tariffs

Thomas O'Reilly July 17, 2023

Despite being lauded in Europe as essential to the green transition, new EU carbon tariffs have evoked considerable anger in the Global South and stirred fears that the tariffs will destroy national steel industries and direct more countries into the arms of China.