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The EU recovery aims to save the economy, and change politics
The proposed EU recovery program represents an attempt to transform the power relationship between the EU and its member states, and its influence over the economic development of the continent. This is more than an argument over which member state gets the best slice of the pie: this is an attempt to shift the power of economic policy making to the Commission and to introduce the power of the EU to collect tax revenue from EU citizens.
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London Speaker Bureau: Exclusive Interview with Tomas Sedlacek: What do fetishes have to do with economics?
The “fetishizing” of economics has resulted in a perpetual cycle of unfulfilled desire and debt and a “post coitum depression”, says Tomas Sedlacek. He is the Czech economist and bestselling author of The Economics of Good and Evil (2011), internationally renowned for challenging assumptions and radically rethinking and humanizing economics. Chief macroeconomic strategist at ČSOB and former economic advisor to President Vaclav Havel, he describes economics as a cultural phenomenon which cannot be free of ethics.
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Czech Permanent Mission to the UN: The Czech Republic Presents Its National Voluntary Review on Sustainable Development
The Czech Republic presented its National voluntary review on Sustainable Development, Czech Permanent Mission to the UN reports: "Analysis of the relevance of the SDGs in the national context shows that all the SDGs and most of the targets of the 2030 Agenda are applicable at the national level. While none of the SDGs have been fully accomplished, each goal contains areas where the Czech Republic scores well and which can be considered as strengths."
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