by Alan Rhode | Aug 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last Tuesday’s fall of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, my hometown, is the umpteenth infrastructural tragedy to hit the city in recent years. On 9 October 2014, a flood ravaged the city centre. After a prolonged, massive rain,...
by Alan Rhode | Aug 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
When the European Union agreed to launch the EU single market in 1992, one of the most politically difficult political and economic issues it faced revolved around establishing a harmonised Value Added Tax regime that did not create...
by Alan Rhode | Aug 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Many political commentators and tax experts have written off the pending European Union’s Digital Service Tax (DST) as a political dream that will never get the unanimous backing of all 28 EU member states needed for...
by Alan Rhode | Jul 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
It is no coincidence that the EU most important decision-making body conducts the overwhelming majority of its business behind closed doors. Because the process can often be unconventional. These days,...
by Alan Rhode | Jul 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
It is all quiet on the European Union copyright front – for now. Although the opposing forces battling over pending new EU laws designed to adapt copyright to the digital era are laying low for the summer recess, nobody is about to wave...
by Alan Rhode | Jun 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
When it comes to taxation in the European Union, it is a rare day when Nordic countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Finland are outspoken opponents. After all the three nations are annually ranked at the top of the...
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