To whom it may concern...
Angesichts der aktuellen politischen Vorgänge sei - einmal meh erlaubt, daran zu erinnern, dass bereits vor 10 (Zehn!) Jahren eine Handvoll verantwortungsbewusster Wirtschaftswissenschaftler "Europa" versucht haben, aus tiefem Schlaf zu wecken! Stattdessen sind die dringend angemahnten Hausaufgaben von den verantwortlichen Politikerinnen schlicht "verschlampt " worden und offenbar in völliger Fehleinschätzung von den politischen Parteien falsche Proritäten gesetzt worden! ...Es kann keider nicht anders ausgedrückt werden!
Niemand sollte also über die anstehenden Problematiken und deren Lösungsversuch ein irgend einer Weise erstaunt sein!
Beispielhaft - hier nur zwei der angemahnten Aufgabenblöcke!
Public Infrastructure Investment,
With regard to public infrastructure investment, the EU needs approximately 200 billion euros annually until 2020, according to independent research and the European Commission’s own estimates.
A significant part of this investment is essential to pursue Europe’s ecological transformation—including its contribution to the global fight against climate change.
This amount covers identified public investment needs in transport, energy efficiency, and renewable energy and network integration. One path is to expand the use of project bonds by leveraging the EU budget. Another path is to further boost the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) paid-in capital. An additional increase of 10 billion euros can finance increased investment for
Taxation.
Taxation, if properly used, can make a decisive contribution in reducing inequality. EU policy should favor progressive taxation of incomes, stiff taxation of inheritance with a strong philanthropic incentive, and taxation of real property and rents. The current reliance on VAT is excessive and regressive and should be reduced. A range of additional measures are necessary: implementing the financial transactions tax to curb speculation and raise funds for
investment, reinforcing transparency obligations, eliminating taxevading transfer pricing, closing loopholes in national tax systems, putting an end to tax havens.
Freundliche Grüße
H. Federmann
Nachhaltigkeitsökonom
https://independent.academia.edu/HFedermann
