INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES

People will stick with cigarettes, which, although more harmful than the alternative, will bring more taxes into the state coffers.

The cost of emissions reductions over the last two decades in the EU has been significant. In Slovakia alone, people pay hundreds of millions of euros a year to support renewable energy sources, with millions more going on insulation and boiler subsidies, or the development of electromobility.

If we want to start talking about next year’s minimum wage increase, we first need to look to the past. As we all know, 2020 was the year of the pandemic, and that brought with it, among other things, a significant downturn in the economy, and with it a fall in labor productivity.

After many years, the last year’s organization of the traditional international conference Free Market Roadshow, which has been organized by Institute on Economic and Social Studies (INESS) in cooperation with Austrian Economics Center (AEC) was cancelled due to the pandemic. This year, it was brought back – into the online space – and dedicated to the topic which has been perhaps the most pertinent for the last year and for many years to come: Pandemic Lessons.

Martin Vlachynský talked in CEA Talk podcast about why Europeans should be concerned about 750 billion EUR packaged called Next Generation EU.

Next Generation EU and its crucial part, Recovery and Resilience Facility, promise to bring an era of growth to the European Union. Can this promise be fulfilled, and if so, at what cost?

With the public discussion absent, Slovakia introduced strict cash payment limits. Only 7 member countries offer stricter limits. Yet, the problems of the “age of cash” have not disappeared – and new risks emerged.