In April 2011, the (new) Belgian Federal Public Service Economy, Small and Medium Enterprises, Self-Employed and Energy, and more specifically its Directorate-General Enforcement and Mediation, launched Belmed (Belgian Mediation), an online dispute resolution (ODR) system for consumers. This...

Income aggregates and poverty and inequality measures tend to show important differences when calculated either with disposable income reported in SILC data, or with the same income concept calculated on the basis of the microsimulation model EUROMOD, which starts from gross incomes in SILC....