Un journal polonais pro-business dénonce l’acharnement des inspecteurs du travail de plusieurs pays d’Europe de l’ouest, en particulier de France, contre des entreprises de l’Est qui ne feraient qu’exploiter en toute légalité les opportunités offertes par le marché unique.
En Pologne, le studio CD Projekt, auteur de la série de jeux The Witcher, est devenu l’emblème d’un secteur en pleine ébullition. Les investisseurs tout comme les créateurs s’y pressent.
La Pologne doit changer de modèle économique, affirme le magazine du syndicat Solidarność. Non seulement la concurrence par les bas salaires n’a pas permis de rattraper l’Europe de l’Ouest, mais elle a en outre provoqué une émigration massive des travailleurs, et empêche le pays d’innover.
In its contemporary history, which can be considered having started in 1945, Japan has achieved the remarkable performance of having most of the time recorded trade surpluses. This result is all the more impressive that it has been mainly driven by exports of goods, almost constantly on the rise since the Japanese economic take-off in the 1950-1960s, despite limited local availability of raw materials and, after 1980, a stagnant population.
In a context of lack of confidence, depressed investment and aggregate demand as well as deflation risks, all of these phenomena occurring despite a conjunction of favourable factors (cheap oil, weaker euro and very accommodative monetary policy), we propose to take up the proposal of the European Commission to revise the Energy Taxation Directive, introduced in 2011 and withdrawn last year due to the opposition of the Parliament and the Council.
At least since the birth of modern capitalism in eighteenth-century Europe, competition has been recognized by many economists and other theoreticians of ethics and social sciences as an essential driver of progress. Either applied to trade, politics or science, competition, they claimed, stimulates innovation and confronts products, services, parties or ideas on a marketplace that rewards the best and sanctions the worst, alike a permanent race where spectators are also expected to be voters, as it should be the case in liberal democracies.