Ex-Slovak Finance Minister Ivan Mikloš: The Flat-Tax Playbook Europe Needs to Compete

Gunther Fehlinger Podcast · Feb 25, 2026 · 54m · transcript

Episode description:

Guest: Ivan Mikloš, introduced as a leading European economic reformer and a key architect of Slovakia’s 19% flat tax. The conversation focuses on Europe’s competitiveness, structural reform, corporate taxation, free trade, and Eurozone enlargement. It also touches on Ukraine (reform work, reconstruction, EU track), Austria’s neutrality and the NATO debate, Slovakia’s non-recognition of Kosovo, and regional political tensions. (Many detailed guest positions are only partially present in the transcript.)

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