The EU’s “Green Deal Industrial Plan” opens a Pandora’s box
By Dr. Ferdinand Meeus
Last week, the European Union presented its «Green Deal Industrial Plan»: a shiny grabbing box, full of new subsidies and tax...
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 Czech election result shows trust in our values is crucial...
By Czech MEP Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP, KDU-ČSL)
The Vampires were on the march again in Prague during Halloween, bless their little hearts. Under the watchful...
The EU’s protectionism continues to hold Africa back
By Abdoulie Ceesay, the deputy majority leader of Gambia’s National Assembly
The European Union (EU) has long been a major trading partner with African, Caribbean,...
“The big state is making a comeback at the EU level”...
Speaking in the European Parliament, Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (ECR – SD) addresses Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (EPP – M), who was on...
The Swiss government’s “assessment of Swiss–EU relations” is missing the mark
By Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, former President of the EFTA Court (2003-2017), Partner at law firm Nobel Baudenbacher, Zurich/Brussels and Visiting...
Brexit: Quo vadis?
After the brief spell of Liz Truss as British PM, the British Conservative Party continues to struggle, now running a whopping 22 percent points behind the...
A closer look at NGOcracy in the EU
By Gunnar Beck, a German Member of European Parliament (AfD-ID) and a reader in law at SOAS, University of London
The Qatargate scandal has exposed...
The EU’s complexity is a strength, not a weakness
By Dalibor Rohac, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C., a research associate at the Martens Centre in Brussels and a Senior Research Fellow...
The EU’s minimum wage directive threatens to dismantle well-functioning collective bargaining...
By Christopher Jakoubek, research assistant at EPICENTER, the European Policy Information Center, an independent initiative of ten leading think tanks from across Europe.
The...
