Epicenter Archives
24 November 2021
Production taxes in France have long been a contentious issue closely linked to employment and wage growth. France currently sets one of the highest …
Noemi Amelynck // 17 August 2020
For the fifth consecutive year, France has been the champion of taxation, with the average French citizen paying more than half of their income …
Nicolas Marques // 3 June 2020
French inadequacies in the face of the COVID-19 crisis are giving rise to a fully fledged attack on globalisation. We are observing an increase …
Zine-Eddine Aklil // 3 March 2020
Despite being a fierce supporter of pro-Europeanism and market liberalisation in the past, Emmanuel Macron’s plans for European-wide protectionism has been relatively unsuccessful. Early …
26 June 2019
This paper explains why additional taxes on the turnover of companies with a large digital presence would be disproportionate, discriminatory and damage the European …
Adam Bartha // 6 March 2019
Macron is right: Brussels cannot continue with business as usual after the European Parliament elections. In his recent open letter to the citizens of Europe, …
7 February 2019
Mass protests of the “yellow vests” have been taking place in France since 17 November 2018. The catalyst of the demonstration was a fuel …
Adam Bartha // 20 December 2018
The French ‘Gilets Jaunes’ started their protests a month ago and since then the global media landscape has interpreted their actions and demands in …
6 September 2018
The social and fiscal contribution from large companies in France and worldwide remains largely unrecognised. Traditional accounting and financial presentations do not provide for …
Algirdas Brochard // 19 June 2017
On 7 may 2017, the French elected as their new President a 39-year-old former banker, someone neither left nor right, unknown to them until …
Adithi Shenava // 18 April 2017
“As Victor Hugo once proclaimed, we have not yet done with being French”, declared Marine le Pen, launching her presidential campaign in Lyon on …
Maximilian Wirth // 20 March 2017
The European Union can breathe a sigh of relief. Geert Wilders, a right-wing populist who wants to take the Netherlands out of the …
30 November 2016
November 30 marks Credit Day across the European Union. Credit Day is the day when member states’ central administrations exhaust their annual tax revenues …
Dominykas Sumskis // 23.08.2016 The sharing, or collaborative, economy is a rapidly rising business model which enables exchanges of goods and services through …
Insitut Économique Molinari // 01.08.2016 This July, the Institut Économique Molinari published the sixth edition of their annual EU-wide tax burden study. The …
Nathalie Janson // 19.07.2016 Since early 2016, with the return of market turbulence and uncertainty over global growth, discreet calls for expansionary monetary …
08 June 2016 France badly needs economic reform. But we shouldn’t let negative news headlines blind us to the fact that the French economy …
Patrick Coquart // 23.05.2016 After several failed attempts since 2012, the “Nutella tax” appears to have been abandoned in France. In January 2016, while …
Cécile Philippe // 29.02.2016 Some people see no need to worry about public debt because it matches the amounts invested to prepare for the …
Greta Gietz // 28.01.2016 With the migrant crisis preoccupying Europe’s media and public debates, France’s “economic and social emergency” is easily forgotten. France reported …
Gabriel A. Giménez Roche, November 2015 In its latest study, the Institut économique Molinari shows that corporate taxation continues to slow down economic recovery …
Cécile Philippe and Nicolas Marques, November 2015 According to Eurostat data, the French government will have used up all of its resources by November …
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