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Lessons for the EU
Once, the European Community was invented to solve economic problems in and between European countries; nowadays it is the European Union itself that is the problem...
EBR presents in this Special Report five articles which have in common that the authors respectively present a more or less surprising but anyhow specific view on how the European Union should look at and handle the continuing political and economic crisis. Certainly worth to read, may be worth to practice the suggested proposals.
![When a crowd of angry Americans threw 45 tons of tea into Boston harbor in 1773, their concern was the under-enforcement of the principle of ‘no-taxation without representation’ – that governments should not impose fiscal obligations on their citizens without them having a saying on it.](/articlefiles/dossier_corporate_tax.jpg)
A European approach to corporate tax
State aid rules however have little to do with convergence of fiscal policies, and the Commission has never said that this should ultimately be the outcome of its investigations. The idea of state aid control is not to prevent free-riding as such.
![In his book The Geopolitics of Emotion, he identified the three basic sentiments of hope, humiliation, and fear as the predominant drivers that shape the geopolitics of the three main regional power centers.](/articlefiles/dossier_dominique_moisi.jpg)
Europe Has More to Fear than Fear Itself
The French foreign policy analyst Dominique Moïsi in 2009 came up with a new set of analytical categories to make sense of the post-9/11 world.
![Greek citizens voted en masse for Syriza. This is a cry of hope for a fairer society and a clear rejection of the austerity policy implemented by the European Union and supported by Antonis Samaras.](/articlefiles/dossier_ellio_di_rupo.jpg)
Europe must listen to its people
Imposing reforms that are sometimes considered humiliating is the best way to jeopardize the construction of Europe, and plant the seeds of social devastation, populism and extremism.
![Political economy – as it was then called – emerged in the eighteenth century, when the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith pursued “an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.”](/articlefiles/dossier_economy.png.jpg)
Rethinking How Economies Work
While many excellent economists have shed light on a wide variety of subjects, we still have only a sketchy grasp of how economies work – and what passes for economic “science” is often bunk.
![Throughout the past several years, the sports sector has continued to grow rapidly whilst its economic impact is often overlooked.](/articlefiles/dossier_sports_eu.jpg)
How Europe can learn from sports industry successes
Yet sport is one of those very rare and precious industries in the EU, dynamic, competitive, rapidly growing and a sector in which foreign markets are clamoring to buy our products and indeed invest in.