L’IEM dans les médias

Paris, Thursday, 22 May 2008 – All types of postal items are set under EU impetus to be opened to competition not later than 2011. Consumers – whether businesses or individuals – can legitimately expect lower prices or higher-quality service. However, a new study from the Institut économique Molinari shows that the potential benefits to consumers and to employment from this liberalisation are threatened by new social legislation such as…

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https://www.euractiv.com/en/environment/gm-crops-way-feed-world/article-171823

https://www.lhemicycle.com/2008/04/02/l%e2%80%99economique-et-les-politiques-publiques/

Article published in the European Voice on March 19, 2008. First there is a subsidy to produce wine and then another subsidy to destroy it. The current cost to EU taxpayers of getting rid of surplus wine is €500 million. The ineffectiveness of EU wine policy is made all the more evident by falling European consumption of its own wines. Plus ça change...

Le droit du travail est-il contraignant en France? Avec ses nombreuses contraintes réglementaires, le droit du travail en France imposent des coûts considérables qui pèsent sur les relations de travail entre entrepreneurs et salariés. Les conséquences directes de ces coûts administratifs sont d’augmenter la précarité des salariés, en désincitant les entreprises à embaucher en CDI, de pénaliser les embauches et d’avoir in fine moins de créations d’emplois à la clé…

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Article published in the Canadian newspaper, National Post, on March 12, 2008. For the third time in a decade-long antitrust saga, the European Commission imposed a fine on Microsoft, this time to the tune of 899 million euros. The new fine confirms that the Commission is acting blindly by not measuring competition correctly in the market for these technologies.

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