Climate policy’s instrument is more important than its numeric target
Last Thursday, I took part in the Energy Conference in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. During the debate, the panel discussion moderator asked me why Poland contested the EU climate policy for...
View ArticleThe Energy Union – not as black as it’s painted
The Energy Union is still very much like a yeti. Though no one has seen it yet, it is already feared. But this is to be expected considering that the concept was born out of concern for security in the...
View ArticleEuropean Energy Union
The union grows through crises – this phrase yields some 20 million search results about the European Union, even without clarifying what kind of union is meant, while searches related to the growth...
View ArticleEconomic policy recommendations from Nobel laureates
As it happened, I was unable to attend the lecture by Prof. Finn E. Kydland and Prof. Edward C. Prescott, entitled ‘The Poor Economic Performances in the EU and the US: Problems are Political, not...
View ArticleRun, Forrest! Run!
It would seem that profit and growth are two sides of the same coin, which is a company’s continued presence on the market. As R&D spending is financed from profit, the higher the profit, the...
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