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...
The EU’s proposed universal PFAS ban ignores the available science
By Dr. Lucas Bergkamp (LL.M.) is a medical doctor and lawyer, based in Brussels, who specializes in chemical regulation. He is currently working on a...
China’s weak intellectual property rights boost Europe’s counterfeit industry
By Susanna Lukacs, Policy Fellow at the Property Rights Alliance
Despite advances in the adoption of formal Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection, the enforcement of IPR...
