Too high, misused, unfair... a large part of the French and Europeans criticize taxes. From tax-rascal to tax revolt, the movement of yellow vests in France has returned to the center of attention the question of consent to tax. How to explain a different resistance to taxes from one country to another without tax pressure being an explanation? Is there a "good" tax? Jean Quatremer takes us on a journey to the tax center across Europe, to meet those who pay it, those who decide it, those who study it... or those who allow to avoid it.

Qu'est-ce qu'un bon impôt?

Two years after the Panama Papers scandal, two investigative journalists at Germany’s largest newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, are ready with a series of new revelations while researchin the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia and a mysterious arms dealer linked to the Iranian nuclear missile programme. When a secret video gets leaked to them in 2019, the journalists have the opportunity to uncover a new scandal, today known as ‘Ibiza-Gate’, involving the Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache.

Behind the Headlines

This film depicts the uprising and fall of Sebastian Kurz, an ex-chancellor of Austria. This is done by explaining the topics of the document "Projekt Ballhausplatz". This document describes exactly the taking over of power by Team Kurz.

Projekt Ballhausplatz

Few personalities have shaped the political landscape in Austria in such a short time, polarized discussions and emotionalized people. Celebrated, criticized, admired, demonized.  A portrait of a man whose name has become synonymous and a mystery.