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Uarctic Congress 2026 We are delighted to invite you to the UArctic Congress 2026, taking place from May 26-29, 2026, in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.This landmark event is hosted by The University of the Faroe Islands, in collaboration with The Faroe Marine Research Institute and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Industry and Tr...

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RIGA, LATVIA: A considerable time has passed since our collaboration with scholars and UNDP to establish VUBS. I STILL INTEND TO HAVE A BRANCH OF IBFP IN VILNIUS.

MY Two Euros (SEURO & NEURO) Proposal: Maybe still not to late to rescue the Euro and the EU: DOG CHASING ITS TAIL: THE INTELLECTUAL POVERTY OF THE EURO PROJECT
By Val Samonis, VU and INET
The Eurozone's (EZ) problems are much more fundamental than the nature and extent of its banks competition that Europeans seem to concentrate on. The intellectual poverty of the Euro Project lies, basically, in the inability to understand that productivity/competitiveness of Southern or Central/Eastern Europe will remain far behind Northern European levels for very long time. Since very long ago, I suggested some practical mid-level theory solutions to this crucial problem, Two Euros (Seuro and Neuro), rather than having One Euro for the whole EU. No matter how much resources we spend on understanding and perfecting bank competition or Brussels bureaucracy, this will not remove the more fundamental problems of the Optimum Currency Area (OCA) that EZ is manifestly not! The United States of Europe or the Canadian federal model is a pie in the sky and will remain so for a very long time! Even more fundamental are the so called structural problems, no time here to talk about them. If we still go up the level of theoretical abstraction, then I fault our understanding of economic science whose models so far abstracted from banking systems (financial inter-mediation) as if banks were not subject to the overarching principal-agent problem, for example. If anything, this line of research is much more relevant to NAFTA/USMCA countries where the nature of bank competition and regulation is indeed a distinguishing feature between success and failure. Contrast over 8000 US banks that are subject to recurring crises: S and L, 2007-8, etc., with some dozen or so Canadian banks that are subject to much better macro-prudential regulation and basically operate according to The Utilities Model. Canada fared best in the world during the very instructional 2007-8 Great Financial Crisis and since. So I suggest that it is this experiential and comparative learning that can provide us with really important clues on how to structure the future of macro-prudential regulation in this global and increasingly digital economy of ours. END OF PROPOSAL SUMMARY, by V. Samonis.

My Two Euros (SEURO & NEURO) Proposal: Maybe still not too late to rescue the Euro and the EU: DOG CHASING ITS TAIL: THE INTELLECTUAL POVERTY OF THE EURO PROJECT
By Val Samonis, IBFP and INET
The Eurozone's (EZ) problems are much more fundamental than the nature and extent of its banks competition that Europeans seem to concentrate on. The intellectual poverty of the Euro Project lies, basically, in the inability to understand that productivity/competitiveness of Southern or Central/Eastern Europe will remain far behind Northern European levels for very long time. Since very long ago, I suggested some practical mid-level theory solutions to this crucial problem, Two Euros (Seuro and Neuro), rather than having One Euro for the whole EU. No matter how much resources we spend on understanding and perfecting bank competition or Brussels bureaucracy, this will not remove the more fundamental problems of the Optimum Currency Area (OCA) that EZ is manifestly not! The United States of Europe or the Canadian federal model is a pie in the sky and will remain so for a very long time! Even more fundamental are the so called structural problems, no time here to talk about them. If we still go up the level of theoretical abstraction, then I fault our understanding of economic science whose models so far abstracted from banking systems (financial inter-mediation) as if banks were not subject to the overarching principal-agent problem, for example. If anything, this line of research is much more relevant to NAFTA/USMCA countries where the nature of bank competition and regulation is indeed a distinguishing feature between success and failure. Contrast over 8000 US banks that are subject to recurring crises: S and L, 2007-8, etc., with some dozen or so Canadian banks that are subject to much better macro-prudential regulation and basically operate according to The Utilities Model. Canada fared best in the world during the very instructional 2007-8 Great Financial Crisis and since. So I suggest that it is this experiential and comparative learning that can provide us with really important clues on how to structure the future of macro-prudential regulation in this global and increasingly digital economy of ours. END OF PROPOSAL SUMMARY, by V. Samonis.

Just finished our globally held birthday of Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz, now 75, the First Leader of the First Anticommunist Economic Reforms in the World! Prof. Balcerowcz was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Toronto Research Seminar Series on Global Emerging Markets, directed by me. Val Samonis, Founder of the Institute.

My addition to the Sermon from the Mountain: Blessed are the Freedom Fighters of all countries, for They sacrifice themselves for the Love of Neighbor!

Eurozonos kolapsas neišvengiamas, jeigu nebus įvestos mano seniai siūlomos reformos, būtent Neuro ir Seuro.

Modern Internet for the Baltic Freedom & Prosperity:

Why Web3 will Change Everything - in Plain English. Or, if you prefer: how crypto changes the world - explained without political or technical language.