By Dr. Barbara Kolm, Director, Austrian Economics Center The new Austrian coalition treaty between Sebastian Kurz´s OVP and Werner Kogler´s Green Party clearly has two different scripts. The presented pact however shows the strength of the OVP. Out of 15 Ministers the OVP will have 11, whereas the Greens only […]
“WHO and PHE put ‘advocacy’ before pandemic preparation, says new research” Courtesy of the IEA The World Health Organization and Public Health England’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been littered with failure and incompetence – in large part because both agencies spread themselves thinly over a huge range of medical, political and social […]
Italy’s introduction of gender quotas for corporate boards produced the expected increase in female representation on boards, but not the hoped-for “spillover” effect in terms of women’s representation of the top ranks of executives at these companies, according to a discussion paper from the IZA, a German trade union-backed think tank. In short, it appears […]
