Privatising railways as the alternative to disfunctional public train companies
Ricardo Filipe is a fellow with Young Voices Europe based in Portugal and a writer on politics and policy.
The inefficiencies of public railway companies...
The EU’s crackdown on “Big Tech” risks US retaliation
After Elon Musk, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has come out against the EU’s digital policies, complaining that “Europe has an ever increasing number of...
Europe is in danger of regulating its technology market out of...
By Lika Kobeshavidze
While the American tech sector has driven astonishing economic growth, leading to booming salaries and standards of living, Europe has languished behind....
Indebted EU member states propose a common credit card: Who would...
By Ernestas Einoris, policy analyst at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
A pivotal 400-page report on the competitiveness of the European Union (EU), authored by...
Europe faces urgent policy choices
By David Criekemans, who teaches international politics, foreign policy and geopolitics at the University of Antwerp, University College Roosevelt in Middelburg and the Geneva Institute...
The transatlantic relationship should not descend into a trade war
By international affairs specialist Glen Hodgson of Swedish think tank Free Trade Europa
In Lewis Carroll’s famous book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” the White Rabbit offers...
What to expect from the Polish EU Presidency?
On January 1st, Poland took over the rotating Presidency of the EU Council, meaning Polish Ministers are now chairing the meetings of the EU’s...
The day the Swiss government agreed a treaty it had not...
By Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, former President of the EFTA Court (2003-2017)
20 December 2024 will go down in the history books in Switzerland....
Europe must learn from South Korea’s mistakes on military conscription
By Ian Golan
As South Korea reacts to President Yoon Suk Yeo’s unexpected attempt to impose martial law, Europe should learn lessons from recent Korean...
The Northvolt collapse signifies the failure of EU green industrial policies
By Marie Söderqvist, CEO of Swedish think tank Environment and Public Health Institute (EPHI)
Recently, the European Commission's President, Ursula von der Leyen, published op-eds...