consumption Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/consumption/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:10:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png consumption Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/consumption/ 32 32 10.8 Billion Euros Missing On The French Budget https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:10:29 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/key-figures/10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget/ “If I have less money, I shouldn’t spend less but tax more”. That is exactly what the French President François Hollande and his Government are doing. Economic principles are obviously upside down. That is the result of socialist economic policies denying reality: the French budget was established on the assumption that taxpayers would continue to spend money as if there were no crisis and as if tax revenues were some kind of annuity. This error can be lethal for French taxpayers.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/10-8-billion-euros-missing-on-the-french-budget/feed/ 0 Sweet Drop on Gauche Caviar: Chronology of the Portugese workers day saga https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/sweet-drop-on-gauche-caviar-chronology-of-the-portugese-workers-day-saga/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sweet-drop-on-gauche-caviar-chronology-of-the-portugese-workers-day-saga https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/sweet-drop-on-gauche-caviar-chronology-of-the-portugese-workers-day-saga/#respond Wed, 30 May 2012 16:33:44 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/sweet-drop-on-gauche-caviar-chronology-of-the-portugese-workers-day-saga/ Portugal is traditionally a leftist country. Since the Carnation Revolution in 1974, in which the Left threw out the fascist government of Marcelo Caetano, it is fashionable in Portugal to be leftist and being labeled socialist. If a proof was needed, in the 2011 elections, all 6 parties in parliament claimed to be leftist parties, and all the three parties who signed the Troika memorandum (yes, the ones who signed it were: PS, PSD and CDS/PP) have Social or Socialist in its very name.

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