As the Eurozone crisis leads to increasing ‘Euro-contestation’, debate has intensified over how the European Union should be reformed. The UK has a crucial role to play in this debate. In this session, we will engage in a conversation as to why and how.
Why is the difference in redistribution preferences between the rich and the poor high in some countries and low in others? In this article, we argue that it has a lot to do with the rich and very little to do with the poor. We contend that while there is a general relative income effect on redistribution preferences, the preferences of the rich are highly dependent on the macrolevel of inequality. The reason for this effect is not related to immediate tax and transfer considerations but to a negative externality of inequality: crime.
Estonia’s new “e-Residency” initiative is an ambitious project that for the first time enables people from anywhere in the world to become digital residents of another nation. Like other pioneering developments in the Estonian “e-state,” the e-Residency project challenges traditional notions of residency, citizenship, territoriality, and globalisation.
