Sweden’s path to the lowest smoking rates in Europe
By Federico N. Fernández, the CEO of We Are Innovation, a global network of 30+ think tanks and NGOs
In the face of the smoking...
Preparing Ukrainian rail infrastructure for EU accession
By Chris White, a former Daily Mail journalist and Press Officer for the UK Conservatives in the European Parliament in Brussels & Strasbourg
Ukraine has...
Strengthening property rights as a means to protect the environment
By Susanna Lukacs, Policy Fellow at the Property Rights Alliance
Instead of heavy-handed regulations and restrictions on human mobility, climate change calls for stronger individual property...
Is Europe having second thoughts on phasing out fossil fuels?
This week, European natural gas prices surged almost 40 per cent, as traders were spooked by the potential for disrupted global liquefied natural gas...
The coup in Niger does not threaten uranium supply to the...
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
After Mali,...
New EU rules on essential oils will hurt honest businesses and...
By Zoltán Kész and Emil Panzaru
For many people, the European Union and its institutions have always meant overregulation and bureaucracy. Their beliefs are fed...
Is the EU’s shaky Eastern Neighbourhood ready for enlargement?
The war in Ukraine has renewed attention for the European Union's neighbourhood, as there now even seems to be serious consideration to allow Ukraine...
The first great UK trade win is in the bag
Earlier this month, UK Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch signed the “Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership” - or CPTPP, a new trade deal...
New EU big tech regulations threaten to slow down technological innovation
By the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
July the 3rd marked an important stage in implementing the EU’s new big tech regulations under the Digital Markets Act...
The “nature restoration law” of Frans Timmermans is a bureaucratic threat...
By Dr. Ferdinand Meeus
During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 12 July, a majority of MEPs approved the EU Climate Pope Frans...























