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Month: January 2011

Business Spectator

Let’s hold the line on immigration

27 January 2011

Migrants can only add value to recipient countries if they fit in and make an effort to integrate.

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Болезненото сбогуване на Европа – поглед отвън

26 January 2011

Европа е континент в криза. Финансовите проблеми на много европейски държави станаха очевидни, когато през май 2010 г.

Ideas@TheCentre

Civil society did not drown in the floods

21 January 2011

The floods that have hit Queensland and parts of Victoria and NSW are a tragedy of almost unimaginable proportions.

Business Spectator

Belgium’s debt bomb is ticking

20 January 2011

Belgium is famous for its waffles, chocolates and beers.

Ideas@TheCentre

Australia and New Zealand on top – but for how long?

14 January 2011

The link between a nation’s economic success and its economic freedom is firmly established.

Business Spectator

A crisis eating away at Europe’s freedom

13 January 2011

Europe’s moral credibility hangs in the balance after Hungary enacted a law to limit press freedom.

Business Spectator

Estonia should have listened to Marx

6 January 2011

Other European countries could learn a thing or two from both Estonia’s previous economic reforms and its tough but successful austerity policies.

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Oliver Hartwich

I run The New Zealand Initiative, a Wellington think tank that argues for free markets, limited government and institutions that work. I grew up in Germany's Ruhrgebiet and worked in London and Sydney before moving to New Zealand in 2012. This site collects two decades of my columns, reports, speeches and interviews, with the occasional satire.

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