• 20 March 2014

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    Category : Opinion

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    Egypt, beyond Consumers Day

    Article by Alejandro Bueno, head of the FIIAPP Public Administration and Social Affairs team, published on 3500 Millones, the newspaper El País's blog, on the 15th of March, International Consumer Rights Day.

    21st of January 2014, 8:30 p.m., Terminal 3 of Cairo International Airport. In the midst of a swarm of taxi offers (legal and otherwise), we glimpsed a handwritten sign with our names on it at the exit to the terminal. The pleasant Egyptian man holding it up quickly ushered us into an SUV to take us...

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  • 14 March 2014

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    Category : Opinion

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    Egypt and Spain, united by safe consumption

    Two years of support to the Egyptian consumer to modernize its market and its society

    The 15th of March, International Consumer Rights Day, is the closing date of a cooperation project between Egypt and a consortium made up of Spain, Germany and France for consumer protection in this North African country: “Strengthening of the consumer protection network and improvemen...

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  • 07 March 2014

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    Category : Interview

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    “Cooperation in drug policies is essential”

    Entrevista al delegado del Plan Nacional sobre Drogas (PNSD), Francisco de Asís Babín.Interview with the delegate of the National Drug Plan (PNSD), Francisco de Asís Babín.

    The FIIAPP has the support of different public institutions for the development of its drug policy projects at the international level. One of these is the PNSD, a key member in the leadership of COPOLAD, the joint programme between Latin America and the European Union for strengthening and ...

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  • 28 February 2014

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    Category : Opinion

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    Costa Rica humanizes taxes

    Qué es un impuesto, para qué sirve y adónde se dirige. Principales cuestiones que aborda el proyecto “Fortalecimiento de los programas de educación fiscal en América Latina" impulsado por EUROsociAL y coordinado por la FIIAPP para hacer comprensibles los impuestos y su gestión. Costa Rica es uno de los países latinoamericanos que se ha sumado a la iniciativa.What is a tax, what is it good for and where does it go? Central questions that the “Strengthening of tax education programmes in Latin America" project, promoted by EUROsociAL and coordinated by the FIIAPP, is addressing in an effort to make taxes and tax administration understandable. Costa Rica is one of the Latin American countries that have signed on to the initiative.

    The day Silvia Tomic decided to start her own business, she realized that she was going to have to undertake a long and costly administrative process, which, in addition, she did not fully understand. This entrepreneur, a journalist by training, saw in the Accounting and Tax...

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