L’IEM dans les médias

Article published by the Financial Times on February 23, 2007, p. 13. The European Commission seems to recognise no limits in its drive to impose tax harmonisation across Europe. Having issued a sanction against Luxembourg last July for its preferential tax regime pertaining to holding companies, Brussels is now trying to put pressure on countries even outside the EU by targeting Swiss cantonal tax competition and their tax breaks and…

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Article published in the EU Reporter (January-February2007, p. 30). In their endeavor to cut back on costs, public health systems throughout Europe resort more and more to drug delisting. Beyond the fact that they may prove to be inefficient, these measures also reflect an alarming trend towards bureaucratization of healthcare by these monopolistic schemes. France provides a fitting example of this trend.

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9 January 2007 – Since 1945-46, the French system of Social Security has been imposing a mandatory health insurance and thus has a captive clientele – as the insured are compelled to finance it. This system has been, and is still, justified in a great measure in the opinion of the general public on grounds that it allegedly leads the French people to become equal in health and provides financing…