Rethinking EU Sin Taxes: The Need for an Evidence-Based Debate
By Jack Berry
Across the EU, governmental bodies and European Union institutions are increasingly implementing taxes and regulations to influence individual behaviour. Excise policy has...
Germany Is No Longer Willing to Follow the Brussels Consensus
By former Dutch diplomat Johannes Vervloed
Germany is increasingly charting its own course in defence, energy and the economy: rearmament, a weakened climate policy and growing...
A Celtic Tiger agenda for Ireland’s EU presidency
By Adam Bartha, Director of EPICENTER, the network of leading European free-market think tanks.
On 1st July, Ireland took over the rotating presidency of the Council of...
Did Iceland Close a Secret Deal with the Brussels Bureaucrats?
By Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson. Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland
Icelandic Foreign Minister Thorgerdur K. Gunnarsdóttir is seeking a referendum on Iceland’s membership of...
EU Joins US-Led Pax Silica Initiative
The European Union, along with the Netherlands, Germany, and Greece, has joined the US-initiated “Pax Silica” pact, an alliance aimed at strengthening secure supply...
Don’t Count Uncle Sam Out
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee). He is the author of...
Is lawfare threatening transatlantic ties?
For a long time, left-leaning NGOs have been using the courts to advance their causes. In particular when it comes to migration and environmental...
The Memorandum of Misunderstanding
By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink
The US and Iran are engaged in a ‘peace process’ that resembles a game of cat and...
EU fails to Find Common Ground on Tobacco Taxation
The revision of the directive on tobacco taxation (TED) saw mixed progress this month. The Committee of Economic Affairs of the European Parliament approved...
The Case for Abolishing the EU Emissions Trading System
By Professor Em. Samuel Furfari. Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the Energy Directorate-General of the European Commission, where he...
