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Oct 11, 2024 | tol.org | Jeffrey Sommers |Daniel Bromfield Pop |Cosmin Marian

Progressive property taxation in the CEE region can protect these countries’ home ownership legacy while making their economies more efficient and fair. by Jeffrey Sommers, Daniel Pop, and Cosmin MarianHousing and food. Absent them, life is short. Precarity in recent decades has put both out of reach for some. Of the two, housing is harder to supply. Yet, from Estonia to Albania, most of the former communist states in Europe boast world-beating rates of home ownership.

Jul 11, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Jeffrey Sommers |Cosmin Marian |Daniel Bromfield Pop

This is what politics looks like today: a president-elect in Mexico pushes big minimum wage hikes amid unsettled financial markets. In Budapest people queue to vote in local and European elections not for liberals to oppose Orban’s nationalist FIDESZ party, but for an alternative conservative party to it. In Germany the rightwing AfD swept elections along political geographic lines almost questioning whether Germany ever fully re-united in 1989.