TAG: EU treaties
Fraud-busters swoop on Greek contracts involving €2.5B of EU recovery funds
ATHENS — Authorities are investigating allegations of fraud linked to the way €2.5 billion in EU funds has been awarded to just 10 companies in Greece, POLITICO can reveal. The offices of the country’s three telecommunications firms — Cosmote, Vodafone an...
6 months ago
Books are ‘mostly’ for rich people, Slovak government shrugs as it puts up VAT
Slovak government plans to increase the country’s value-added tax (VAT) rate on books from 10 percent to 23 percent have drawn criticism from the country’s publishers, political opposition and university students.“Books, according to our analysis, are mos...
3 weeks ago