How Europe is coping with Trump: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and...
By Peter De Keyzer, Founding partner of Growth Inc
Psychologists distinguish five stages to process trauma: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Denial, disbelief and...
For Macron, “business as usual” should no longer be an option
By Dutch MEP Rob Roos (JA21, ECR)
A big shadow hangs over the re-election of French President Emmanuel Macron. Almost 42% of French preferred Marine Le...
When it comes to Iran, the EU is hopelessly naive
By Professor Samuel Furfari, formerly a senior official at the Energy Directorate-General of the European Commission (1982-2018), Professor em. at Université libre de Bruxelles
In the...
The debate on whether to ban TikTok is not about free...
By Zoltan Kesz, government affairs manager at the Consumer Choice Center and a former member of the Hungarian Parliament.
The intellectual debate among classical liberals on the necessary...
The EU should place more trust in national competition authorities
By Javier Santacruz, Lead Researcher at Spanish classical liberal think tank Civismo
Last month, the decision making process to get the EU’s so-called “Digital Services...
The EU clearly does not want to let this crisis go...
By Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (SD-ECR) and Swedish MP Martin Kinnunen (SD), a Member of the Swedish Parliament’s Committee on European Union Affairs
The EU...
Iran’s Karma
By Miguel Nunes Silva, Director of Portugese think tank Trezeno Institute
It may seem like a distant memory now but half a century ago, Tel Aviv and...
In the trade war, reality is setting in
The trade war unleashed by US President Donald Trump has set a lot of things in motion. First and foremost, it seems to have...
Is it getting time to abolish Frontex?
The last few months have been rather tough for Frontex, the EU’s Border and Coast Guard Agency, established in 2004 and headquartered in Warsaw.
Earlier...
An assessment of Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission presidency
Originally published by The Spectator (picture via CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2019 – Source: EP)
For five years, Jean-Claude Juncker has been head of the...
