The Lisbon Council convened the High-Level Roundtable on the European Democracy Action Plan: A One-Year Bilan, taking stock of this flagship Von der Leyen Commission initiative and looking ahead to the future.
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This Report has been prepared for the European Commission, DG TAXUD, for the project TAXUD/2019/AO-14, “Study and Reports on the VAT Gap in the EU-28 Member States”, and is a follow-up to the eight reports published between 2013 and 2020.
An increasingly digitalized global economy requires ever-more digitally skilled workforces for nations to remain productive. Unfortunately, domestic and international assessments of digital skills show the United States is lagging its competitors.
The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) embarked on a research and advocacy project on Malaysia’s New Economic Policy (NEP), with the aim to revisit a
The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) is encouraged by the pledges made by both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan in their respective manifestos for the upcoming Malacca state elections to be held on 20th November, in which both emphasize political stability and equitable economic development. However, IDEAS warns that high promises by all the competing coalitions must be institutionalized in order to become meaningful.
In theory, our ports could be transformed. However, there are many questions that investors will ask before they commit – and those will largely be about control, says Chris Hattingh.
The report, which forms part of our ‘Peru: Pathways to Prosperity’ programme, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, explains that, despite the need for political and judicial reforms, this urgency has historically been ignored by a political system that is not in the interests of the majority of citizens. “Widespread corruption in the judiciary has become the engine of the political system,” the report explains.
For years the European Union (EU) has been criticised for its alleged democratic deficit. Typical allegations in this respect are, among other, related to the dispossession of national authorities that is not sufficiently compensated for at the EU level; too much power for the EU’s executive brunch – European Commission (EC) – whose top officers nor the political leadership in the cabinet are elected in democratic elections and are not dependent and accountable to EU’s citizens; as well as inadequate level of parliamentary control over decision-making processes.