Luxembourg: economic profile
Banks, holding companies, Soparfi and other specialised financial entities: finance in Luxembourg is a serious business. As the economic and financial media PaperJam points out, "banks in Luxembourg comprise 156 establishments with balance sheets totalling almost €950 billion, earnings before provisions of almost €4.3 billion and more than 25,000 employees".
Roland Pinnel, Director of the Luxembourg City Tourist Office
Portugal Lisbon - Porto: Business, customs and culture
Although the nostalgia sung by the fado, the call of the open sea and the British influence are still the symbols of the land of Vasco da Gama, today's Portugal is above all a country open to the world...
Valencia CAC
Belgium The country they call Eden
The grass is always greener in the neighbour's field", as the saying goes. "We're always someone else's tax haven," quips M. D., a lawyer specialising in taxation. And from a tax point of view, Belgium is certainly not the most attractive country; the tax rate on earned income quickly rises to 50 %. And Belgium has one of the highest levels of income tax in the world. But here's the thing... in Belgian tax terminology, the word ISF is absent from dictionaries.
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The Northern Quarter
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A business guide to the heart of one of the most dynamic economies in the new world.
