Marc De Vos notices how François Hollande has replaced his election slogans with the language of cost control and competitiveness. The new French president will not rewrite the laws of economic gravity.
At the announcement of the July mid-term budget decisions, federal or regional governments qualified their decisions as “historic”. The reaction from civil society, media and the public was sceptical.
The 'basic income' is in the spotlight: as an answer to technology that destroys jobs, as a method for creating more opportunities and less poverty, or as an alternative to the welfare state.
Good governance is a very extensive concept which relates to both the tasks of the government, the reached result and also the way a result was pursued, as the cost of it. Obviously, good governance is on the agenda of Itinera.
The situation in our country shows the urgency of a tax shift away from taxes on labour. We observe that despite all the recommendations of other instances, also this government doesn’t take this challenge seriously.