The EU wants to stifle critical voices on social media
By former Dutch diplomat Johannes Vervloed
The EU has devised “chat control” to gain far-reaching authority over social media. And more plans are in the...
The EU’s energy policies threaten our prosperity
By John Dejaeger, former managing director of BASF Antwerp and chairman of Pro Flandria.
The European Union's energy policy threatens to end in disaster. We...
AI, Semiconductors, and the Trap of Zero-Sum Thinking
In the United States, the Trump administration is considering whether to allow US tech company Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 AI chips to...
Putin is betting on a European retreat
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)
The new peace plan for Ukraine is...
Sudan: “One of the gravest human tragedies of our time.”
By Martin Banks
MEPs and a respected rights group have joined forces in demanding urgent action to stop the “gravest human tragedies of our time."
As Sudan descends...
A bonfire of green EU policies?
On Wednesday 19 November, EU governments agreed to extend the EU’s deforestation directive (EUDR) once again, this time until the end of December 2026,...
Presenting the “EU Regulatory Quality Index”
By Constantinos Saravakos, a doctoral candidate in international and European studies at the University of Macedonia and head of research at Greek think tank...
A moment of reckoning for the WHO
By Michael Landl, Director at the World Vapers’ Alliance.
This week, in Geneva, countries gather under the banner of the World Health Organization to discuss the future...
Why Cutting Bureaucracy Is a Near-Impossible Mission in a Representative Democracy
Matthias Bauer is a German economist and Director at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE). In his new book, called "The Deep...
A narco-state in the heart of Europe?
The road to becoming a narco-state is paved with good intentions
‘We are evolving into a narco-state’, a Belgian judge who had to go into...
