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More leisure, better health outcomes, greater equality, and lower carbon emissions, all with overall comparable productivity: Europeans can be proud of their model.

To address the concerns of farmers and environmentalists, the Commission proposes stricter controls on pesticide residues in imported products. A strategy doomed to fail, according to economist Carl Gaigné and researcher Mathieu Parenti.

A minimum tax on the EU's richest individuals will not discourage innovators and start-up founders from investing in the bloc, prominent economist Gabriel Zucman told POLITICO.

This is a study that should make waves. It focuses on taxing the richest in Europe. Published this Thursday, it comes from the EU Tax Observatory. One of the three authors is Gabriel Zucman, who has attracted much attention by proposing a 2% tax on the richest French individuals.

“We estimate that almost 50% of this reduction was due to the exceptional growth of top 10% Black incomes (relative to growth of lower deciles). Despite reaching its lowest point in history, the White-to-Black factor income ratio remains extremely high," read the report.

Quentin Parrinello, policy director at the the EU Tax Observatory, said studies in Scandinavia and France also shows that “mobility of high-net-worth individuals does exist, but it is extremely limited”.

Speaking to RTL Infos, Alice Chiocchetti provided a clearer look into Luxembourg’s role: "€1.7 billion in pre-tax profits are transferred to Luxembourg each year by French multinationals.”

For the economist, the information from "Cash Investigation" about Bernard Arnault's tax arrangement reinforces this now well-known fact: billionaires pay a ridiculous tax rate on their income, and it has become essential to remedy this injustice.

The European Tax Observatory has just produced a study that analyzes for the first time the global accounting data of multinational companies, whose reporting has recently been made mandatory by the OECD (1) for companies with more than 750 million euros in turnover.

Since 2016, companies have been required to report their worldwide profits to the tax authorities, which is a ‘revolution for research in this field,’ Alice Chiocchetti, one of the authors of the study and a researcher at the Paris School of Economics, told AFP.