by Alan Rhode | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
When the European Commission first proposed ground-breaking electronic commerce legislation in 2016 to extend the use of the one-stop-shop for processing VAT sales to online merchants, it did require online intermediary platforms...
by Alan Rhode | Dec 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Those were dark days in Estonia in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. And they lasted much longer then the bleak winter days when the sun only makes a cameo appearance. When the economy crashed and a real estate bubble...
by Alan Rhode | Dec 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Faced with a two-front fiasco, French Finance minister Bruno Le Maire realized it was time to cut a deal. And, certainly, compromising with Germany and other EU member states was an easier option than dealing with...
by Alan Rhode | Nov 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
As many ill fated politicians have learned over the years, mission creep is an often inevitable outcome of any attempt to solve a geopolitical crisis by military means. The same unintended expansion can often...
by Alan Rhode | Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
When the U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond floated the idea of the city of London becoming “Singapore on the Thames” tax haven in the run up to the Brexit negotiations, it...
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