“It doesn’t make me happy at all to have to introduce this tax”, Czech Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said when parliament voted at his request for a tax on “super profits” of banks and energy companies.
A net profit of 15 billion…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Central Europe - For more than a month, the currencies of Central Europe (a term that, for my part, I always use in a conventional/geographical sense: post-communist Europe outside the former USSR) have dropped against Western currencies – …
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Last Thursday, as reported by the Romanian news agency Agerpres , the Official Monitor of Romania published the decision by Prime Minister Mihai Tudose (seated on June 29) to appoint the lawyer Gheorghe Piperea as his honorary…