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By Nikola Kedhi, a senior financial consultant at Deloitte. His comment pieces have appeared in Fox News, il Giornale, CapX, The European Conservative, The American Conservative, The Federalist, Newsmax and Mises.org.
It took a while, but inflation has finally...
Last year, the EU agreed its “Strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific”, with the intention to “contribute to the region’s stability, security, prosperity and sustainable development, in line with the principles of democracy, rule of law, human rights and international law.” Observers however do...
In recent years, the debate on the so-called “demographic collapse” of Europe has heated up. At the moment, birth rates in the EU are below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman in all 27 member countries. That...
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Having failed to roll out vaccine booster campaigns, European governments resort to new Covid...
Despite mass vaccination, parts of Europe are being plagued by a new Covid wave, causing countries to implement a whole range of new restrictions....
It is high time for the EPP to fully embrace broader centre-right cooperation
By Dutch MEP Sander Smit, delegation leader of the Dutch FarmerCitizenMovement (BBB, EPP Group)
Last week, the European Parliament showed its worst side. The Parliament...
Hopeful signs for EU trade policy
Recently, the EU has achieved some progress when it comes to opening up its global trade, to offset the new trading barriers introduced by...
Europe’s green plans are ruinous and destructive
By Samuel Furfari, Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles, President of the European Society for Engineers and Industrialists, and former European Commission official, and...
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A Court Without Limits? Three Structural Problems With the Strasbourg Human...
By Thomas Spaas, a Belgian Attorney specialised in Belgian and international tax issues
Criticism of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has indeed grown...
Securing AI Chips in the Global Race to Build AI Hubs
Last year, the European Commission presented its plan to catch up in the global race to build artificial intelligence (AI) hubs. Therefore, through leveraging...
How the Mafia Is Infiltrating Italy’s Use of EU Covid Funds
By Prof. Vincenzo Musacchio, an expert in criminal law, organised crime and corruption at the Council of Europe
Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)...
Hungary: Orbánism without Orbán?
By Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland
When the results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections on 12 April 2026 were announced,...
NGOs on the defence?
Political campaigning seems to be increasingly conducted through the court room. Last week, Greenpeace and the American company Energy Transfer faced off in an...
The “Energy Transition” as a Solution to Energy Scarcity Is Unrealistic...
By former Dutch diplomat Johannes Vervloed
The war in Iran has brought home the harsh reality to policymakers in Brussels and in the capitals of...
EU Steel Protectionism Comes at the Expense of Competitiveness
By international affairs specialist Glen Hodgson of Swedish think tank Free Trade Europa
In the Taoist text The Liezi, attributed to Lie Yukou, it is said...
Europe’s Iran Strategy Needs Clarity, Not Illusion
By Martin Patzelt, a former member of the German Bundestag. He was part of the German Parliament’s Human Rights Committee for two terms, where...
The Evidence Is In: The Dutch Vape Flavour Ban Has Backfired
By Tim Andrews (Prohibitiondoesnotwork.com)
A new report from Prohibition Does Not Work (PDNW) finds that the Netherlands’ vaping flavour prohibition has totally undermined any control over...
The effect of mass migration on European foreign policy
By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink
In December 2010, former VVD leader and ex-European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein (picture) spoke his mind. In...
