Author: Erik Sass

Okay, maybe just four times.  But the Freiheit.org think tank is scathing in its rejection of the automated upload filter proposed as part of a new digital regulation, listing four concise but highly convincing reasons to reject the idea.

  There’s good news and bad news for British free traders in the U.S. trade representative’s outlines for a U.S.-U.K. trade treaty.   On the reasonable side are U.S. demands in agriculture, industrial goods and services. But the Trump Administration appears determined to maintain a number of totemic protectionist measures.   More from the Free […]

Italian bank customers who lost their savings and were awarded repayment are still waiting, notes Farefuturo in a fairly blistering article (original in Italian).

While the economic problems facing refugee populations and host countries can only be solved through private employment, governments can do more to help employers who are trying to hire refugees, argue analysts from the European Policy Centre. The report lists a number of areas where EU authorities might be able to help make it easier […]

Corporate boards have a lot of work to do to “future proof” their companies against impending shocks from blockchain and AI. A new report summarizes the recommendations and concerns covered during a panel discussion hosted by the European Corporate Governance Institute.

  Corporate taxes are “out of control,” argues Matthias Bauer in a new report for the European Centre for International Political Economy.   Among other charges, the report characterizes the EU taxes on digital platforms as a form of “tax protectionism.”    

The 2016 increase in Ireland’s minimum wage had a marginal impact on household incomes, although it did succeed in reducing inequality between high and low wage earners by up to 8%, according to Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute.

French automaker Peugeot is pointing the way for other big companies to burnish their image and address the social crisis fueling the “yellow vest” protests in France — through profit-sharing bonuses. Michel Albouy details the market-friendly, business-driven response at Contrepoints.

The UK’s asylum policy may be the single biggest challenge to enforcing real control of the nation’s borders, as promised by Brexiteers, writes David Wood, former director general of immigration enforcement.  Wood’s analysis is available for download from Civitas.