New Basel banking regulations may put smaller banks out of business
By Jorge Muñoz
What if the regulation designed to solve banking problems only ends up making them worse? This is the critical question surrounding Basel...
Searching for a silver bullet
By international affairs specialist Glen Hodgson of Swedish think tank Free Trade Europa
The American businessman, investor and author Ben Horowitz once stated that there is...
Will the EU finally start to dismantle its excessive bureaucracy?
By Ernestas Einoris, a policy expert at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
EU policymakers have recognized that attempting to grow the European economy under the...
Could the EU’s Digital Markets Act weaken platform security?
By Professor Giuseppe Colangelo, Jean Monnet Professor of European Innovation Policy and Associate Professor of Law and
Economics, University of Basilicata
The revival of regulation has...
Europe is turning into a planned economy with massive debt
By Derk Jan Eppink, a former Dutch MP and MEP
In the European Union, plans are piling up. In the summer of 2020, the 750-billion-euro...
The European climate emperor has no clothes
By Peter De Keyzer, a founding partner of Growth Inc.
The EU's Industrial Clean Act was announced last month with much fanfare. De facto, the...
Innovation is the way forward for the EU
By Arta Haxhixhemajli
The EU needs deregulation. That does not mean compromising on any core principles. It means smarter, streamlined policies which promote efficiency without...
The EU is pushing the European car industry to the brink
By Dutch Member of European Parliament Sander Smit (EPP, BBB)
From 2035, new cars in the European Union will no longer be allowed to emit...
Joint EU debt for European defence investment is a questionable idea
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)
Europe faces a huge task rebuilding adequate...
Postponing EU sustainability reporting rules and covering fewer companies is insufficient
By Otto Brøns-Petersen, director of analysis and Line Andersen, economist, at Danish think tank CEPOS
The Draghi-report concluded that excessive EU regulation is detrimental to...
