EU rules Member States tax policy
Through new rulings, the EU may become a dominant force in Member States tax policy. EU budgetary requirements and individual nations’ contribution rates are already integral to all EU members’ design of tax policy. All mem...
China’s investment and services “great wall”
While China’s OFDI is characterised by being politically unconditional, therefore highly welcomed, the predominance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) investing in Africa and other developing countries could eventually become ...
Festivals increasingly seen as object of policy
Festivals increasingly seen as culturally and economically important and as object of policy. Towards the great festival of Europe – or (2) competition among festivals becomes symbolically or economically important, with winn...
The war between natural and artificial ecosystems
Microsystems will evolve in the future into integrated smart systems which are able to sense and diagnose a situation, which are predictive, and therefore are able to decide and help to decide. Smart systems address and identif...