Tag archive for ‘carbon tax’
Introducing a European Carbon Tax: The Missing Piece in Europe’s Climate Strategy?
Once in a while, usually at the beginning of his turn in office, the EU Commissioner for Taxes approaches member state governments with a specific proposal: a European carbon tax. While in the past, this attempt seemed both brave and hopeless at the same time, the attempt could actually win some support this year. The [...]
An EU Budget for the 21st Century
The publication last week of the European Commission’s 2020 paper marks a return to normal service for the EU. We can now get back to proper political debate about Europe’s future rather than be distracted by institutional navel gazing. Welcome as the Commission’s proposals are though, they reveal a worrying faith in and reliance on [...]
Timing is NOT everything – Exit Strategies must also be credible and above all just
The battle-lines are already drawn up over when to begin withdrawing the stimulus measures that appear, for the moment, to have averted the widely feared global economic meltdown: on the one hand the inflation and deficit hawks who cannot wait for monetary policy to return to normal, and for fiscal policy to reign in the [...]
