Fiscal incentives for Research and Development
Innovation is an important driver of growth and investments in R&D stimulate innovation. Many governments encourage investments in R&D with the purpose of addressing market failures.
taxes
Greening the budget; a (too) high social price?
Belgium has rather low environmental taxes. A radical fiscal greening could yield between € 3 and 5 billion per year, which allows a reduction of personal income taxes by 7 up to 11%.
Governance European member states needs improvement
Only citizen initiatives can bring a new political culture. Therefore the problem of collective action needs to be overcome which is of no use when an individual citizen reacts against clientism while his fellow citizens are making use of it.
