government Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/government/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Wed, 22 May 2024 03:08:06 +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 government Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/government/ 32 32 The Italian Economy and its inefficient public administration https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-italian-economy-and-its-inefficient-public-administration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-italian-economy-and-its-inefficient-public-administration https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-italian-economy-and-its-inefficient-public-administration/#respond Wed, 22 May 2024 03:06:17 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/?p=35484 A few days ago, the Italian leading business newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore, published an article on economic growth in Europe. The article offered several interesting insights. Notably, it emphasized…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-italian-economy-and-its-inefficient-public-administration/feed/ 0 Newspeak, or about the governments’ attempts to control the language https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/newspeak-or-about-the-governments-attempts-to-control-the-language/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=newspeak-or-about-the-governments-attempts-to-control-the-language https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/newspeak-or-about-the-governments-attempts-to-control-the-language/#respond Wed, 21 Jun 2023 07:10:06 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/?p=35137 Is Newspeak just a piece of the dystopia imagined by Orwell, or is it a realistic representation of a typical ambition of political power, connected with the will to influence…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/newspeak-or-about-the-governments-attempts-to-control-the-language/feed/ 0 United States: 800,000 Civil Servants Unemployed Means 212,000 Private Sector Jobs Created https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/united-states-800-000-civil-servants-unemployed-means-212-000-private-sector-jobs-created/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=united-states-800-000-civil-servants-unemployed-means-212-000-private-sector-jobs-created https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/united-states-800-000-civil-servants-unemployed-means-212-000-private-sector-jobs-created/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:03:00 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/key-figures/united-states-800-000-civil-servants-unemployed-means-212-000-private-sector-jobs-created/ About a month ago, the United States experienced the "Shutdown" for 15 days. Several jurisdictions were closed and about 800,000 employees have been laid off because no agreement was reached on the budget. The Democrats and President Obama cried about the paralysis of the economy in order to end the "shutdown". In fact, the US economy has not been affected by the shutdown. More: the US economy even experienced an upturn. According to the data on the third quarter, U.S. GDP grew by 2.8% and more than 212,000 net jobs were created in the private sector! Long live the "shutdown"!

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/key-figures/article/united-states-800-000-civil-servants-unemployed-means-212-000-private-sector-jobs-created/feed/ 0 The Price of The State https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/the-price-of-the-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-price-of-the-state https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/the-price-of-the-state/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:02:39 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/the-price-of-the-state/ We all receive from and give to the State. But exactly how much ? An initiative from INESS, a slovakian think tank, helps citizen to quickly get an approximation of…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/the-price-of-the-state/feed/ 0 Why the Portuguese government fell? https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/why-the-portuguese-government-fell/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-the-portuguese-government-fell https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/why-the-portuguese-government-fell/#respond Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:18:53 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/why-the-portuguese-government-fell/ Because the music stopped.

As Thatcher said, “They [socialists] always run out of other people's money”. Portugal is now a perfect study case for this golden rule, with its quadruple-crisis.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/why-the-portuguese-government-fell/feed/ 0 Tempting the Tipping Point https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/tempting-the-tipping-point/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tempting-the-tipping-point https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/tempting-the-tipping-point/#respond Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:01:40 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/tempting-the-tipping-point/ If governments continue to pile on more and more debt, when will they reach the tipping point? The Greeks appear to be close to the tipping point, and it is only a matter of time before other European countries, and eventually even the United States, begin their fiscal death spiral. The Greek government's unwillingness to make the hard choices necessary to put its fiscal house in order in the past few weeks has caused investors to demand a 2.5 percent premium on its government-issued Eurobonds over those issued by the German government.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/tempting-the-tipping-point/feed/ 0 Eight hundred years of financial folly https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/eight-hundred-years-of-financial-folly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eight-hundred-years-of-financial-folly https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/eight-hundred-years-of-financial-folly/#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:45:50 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/eight-hundred-years-of-financial-folly/ A new historical database on debt and banking crisis is showing that we might be in a trivial, rather than exceptional economic situation regarding government debt. Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, the authors of the database and the connected study are showing that over the longer sweep of history governments regularly resorted to defaulting or at least restructuring their “uncomfortable” government debt. After the Great Depression, over 40% of the countries did so, and after the 1980-82 recession, 30% of the countries did it.

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