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The five questions referred for a preliminary ruling regarded recent changes in the laws regulating the judicial system.

The questions complement the proceedings conducted by the European Commission, which also has doubts regarding the Act on the Supreme Court.

The 1980 pension reform in Chile was a pioneering program of transition from a pay-as-you-go pension system to a funded pension scheme.

The Timbro Sharing Economy Index is the first global index of the sharing economy. The index has been compiled using traffic volume data and scraped data, and provides a unique insight into the driving factors behind the peer-to-peer economy.

The ongoing discussion in Poland regarding the high variation in wages and income inequality focuses on the way in which added value generated in the economy is distributed between employees (wages), employers (profits) and the state (taxes). This misses a key point: a large variation in productivity in the economy. In Poland, the effort of many people working in inefficient entities is ineffective, which translates into their low wages and small contributions to economic growth.

Economic migrants rarely displace local labour force. Immigrants are more likely to complement existing labour force creating opportunities for growth and bringing needed skills.  

Marek Tatała was the guest of BBC program ‘The Real Story’ where he critically commented Supreme Court situation.

Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik organised on June 11, 2018 in Bratislava another lecture within the Conservative Economic Quarterly Lecture Series /CEQLS/: Good and Bad Transformation. Lecture given by: Leszek Balcerowicz, Professor of Economics and Architect of Poland´s economic reforms.

This document has been drafted as a response to the non-paper “Polish judiciary regulations – current state of affairs” that is being distributed in Brussels among the EU actors by the Polish government.

The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy proposes to return to the harmful policy of the PiS government from 2016-2017: the stepwise increases in the minimum wage(14.3% in total). In 2019, the minimum wage would increase from the current PLN 2100 to 2250. This raise (7.1%) would be higher than the forecasted increase in whole-economy wages (5.6%). 

Contributors to the latest issue of 4liberty.eu Review include Marek Tatała of the Civil Development Forum (FOR) in Poland, Ivan Bregov of the Institute for Market Economics in Bulgaria, and Admir Čavalić of Association “Multi” in Bosnia and Herzegovina, all of which are Atlas Network partner organizations. The content editor of the eighth issue was Tanja Porčnik of the Visio Institut in Slovenia, which is also an Atlas Network partner.