Or, y'know, politicians who were willing to put the effort in to work within EU structures to get rules changed put that work in and got the rules changed. (View Post)

Burnham should have kept Darren Jones within the tent. I think it was probably the biggest mistake of his first day. (View Post)

Sure, politics is always hard and always involves tradeoffs and choices. (View Post)

The EU changed the VAT directive rules in 2022, so that, for example, Ireland has been able to reduce the VAT on period products to 0%. This is one of the things that was always missing from the EU d… (View Post)

The decision by the Russian Ministry of Finance to suspend bond sales was ostensibly done to stabilise the bond market, but the yield on Russian 10-year bonds has reached a new high (of 16.82%). (View Post)