The European Commission’s study on the sustainability of the debt of its member states (Debt Sustainability Monitor 2025) predicts for Greece that its public debt will remain more than double the Maastricht limit of 60% in the medium term (at 124% of GDP in 2036). In essence, the current Greek governments are implementing a political …
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The Big Dilemma: Interest Rates Increases or Price Controls
The main driving force of inflation in Europe is not excessive demand, but mainly energy market problems and secondarily shortages and consequent price increases in raw materials or intermediate and final goods, due to the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic in China. If nominal interest rates rise do you think the problems will …
The Crypto Assets and their Regulatory Framework
Ludwig Von Mises in its book titled «The Theory of Money and Credit» mention that «the State has not the power of directly making anything into money, into a common medium of exchange. It is only the practice of the individuals who take part in business that can make a commodity into a medium of …
EU vs. Apple
The European Court of Justice in its judgment of 15 July 2020 ruled that the evidence provided by the European Commission was insufficient to show that Apple benefited from an artificial reduction in the tax rate in 2014, thus annulling the Commission’s mandate to Apple to pay in Ireland – a member state of the …
The Sustainable Solution for the Eurozone Economy – Part IV
As regards the public sector expenditures on unemployment benefits and given that there will be a joint operational and centrally designed budget for the central government of the Eurozone, these costs will must be made with a combination of expenditures both from the budget of the central’s government member state and the common Eurozone budget. …
The Sustainable Solution for the Eurozone Economy-Part III
The downsizing of public sector expenditures in central government budgets will must be done by a specific methodology and depending on the range-size of the public sector of the Eurozone (EU) member country. The budgetary curtailment of the public sector expenditures of a Eurozone member country will must be done with specific policies which, depending …