Seven European countries to halt export finance for fossil fuels
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UPDATE 1-Europe should match U S s economic stimulus ambition -France
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Global Minimum Tax Rate Bad for Free Market, National Sovereignty: Economists Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats trying to undermine national sovereignty.
Economists are sceptical of the Biden administration’s push for a global minimum tax rate for corporations, saying not only will it “frustrate” the free market, but it will see very little support from foreign governments.
“At the end of the day, any international agreement is essentially toothless due to the existence of national sovereignty,” Gigi Foster, professor of economics at the University of New South Wales (NSW) told The Epoch Times.
“The incentive for individual countries to offer appealing tax treatment will remain, no matter how strong the international pressure on a country to conform to some nominated standard,” she added.
French far-right politician Marine Le Pen said on Friday she would stand in the 2022 presidential election and that she thought victory was entirely plausible . I am once again standing as a presidential candidate, before you, Le Pen, 52, who heads up the far-right Rassemblement National party, told a news conference.
President Emmanuel Macron defeated Le Pen by 33 per cent to 66 per cent in the 2017 vote.
Opinion polls again put Macron and Le Pen as the likely two candidates to make it through to the last round in the April 2022 election, with Macron seen as the eventual winner.
French far-right politician Marine Le Pen said on Friday she would stand in the 2022 presidential election and that she thought victory was entirely plausible