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Billions in funding must be created, massive loans must be taken out, new taxes will be introduced, if VDL and her obedient commissioners have their way. The proposal includes an EU tobacco tax for smokers and a corporate tax for companies with a turnover of more than €50 million. This way, in its ‘hunger’ for own money, the commission wants to raise direct taxes for ‘Brussels’ directly, which affects the sovereignty of the member states. Countries decide for themselves how to tax certain matters.

Von der Leyen wants an astronomical EU budget of 2 trillion euros

The European Commission led by its president, Ursula von der Leyen, has once again shown its complete indifference to the economic situation in the EU member states

To live up to that challenge, Europe should urgently fix its diplomatic craftsmanship. There has been too much talk and too little action. On the crises in its most immediate surroundings, Europeans need to finally put skin in the game to earn a seat at the table. In Ukraine, it means substantially enhancing its military assistance to Kyiv while at the same time starting to discuss the parameters of a future peace settlement and the security order in Europe.

Reinventing European Diplomacy

By yielding to U.S. demands, Europeans risk becoming geopolitically obsolete. To be influential in the changing post–1945 order, Europe must enhance its diplomacy by upholding universal rights and values while meeting the needs of nations from the Global South

This undeniable fiscal reality is often concealed by claiming that whatever the problem may be, it can easily be solved by just having “the wealthy” pay more into the system or including civil servants to finance it.But that would only buy a little time, because the problem is much bigger than that. Including new groups would exacerbate the problems, because in the future even more benefit recipients would have to be supported by fewer and fewer contributors.

Dateline Germany: Why pension reform is key to stabilizing democracy

Why have young people not yet rebelled, organized themselves and gone on strike on the missing public pension reforms?

The EU is capable of sudden and profound shifts once it commits to specific objectives. It is also capable of acting with determination. It created the Schengen Area for passport-free movement for citizens of many European states and managed to hold onto and even enlarge that area despite the 2015 migration crisis.

Betting on Europe

The rift between Brussels and Washington raises questions about which side will emerge stronger. The Europeans are laying the groundwork to enhance their power and have already proved their ability to withstand epochal change

Historically, services expanded precisely because human labor was needed to navigate informational asymmetries — such as those between patients and doctors, consumers and retailers or clients and legal advisors.Today, algorithmic systems can increasingly automate these tasks, diagnosing conditions, matching supply and demand and optimizing legal and financial transactions.

Are we navigating the end of the market era?

We are entering a data-driven world where democratic governance struggles to catch up with the hybridization of power between states, platforms and private data monopolies

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