Did Iceland Close a Secret Deal with the Brussels Bureaucrats?
By Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson. Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland
Icelandic Foreign Minister Thorgerdur K. Gunnarsdóttir is seeking a referendum on Iceland’s membership of...
EU Joins US-Led Pax Silica Initiative
The European Union, along with the Netherlands, Germany, and Greece, has joined the US-initiated “Pax Silica” pact, an alliance aimed at strengthening secure supply...
Don’t Count Uncle Sam Out
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee). He is the author of...
Is lawfare threatening transatlantic ties?
For a long time, left-leaning NGOs have been using the courts to advance their causes. In particular when it comes to migration and environmental...
The Memorandum of Misunderstanding
By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink
The US and Iran are engaged in a ‘peace process’ that resembles a game of cat and...
EU fails to Find Common Ground on Tobacco Taxation
The revision of the directive on tobacco taxation (TED) saw mixed progress this month. The Committee of Economic Affairs of the European Parliament approved...
The Case for Abolishing the EU Emissions Trading System
By Professor Em. Samuel Furfari. Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the Energy Directorate-General of the European Commission, where he...
Why the EU Migration Pact Won’t Stop Europe’s Asylum Crisis
By Arnout Jaspers, a Dutch physicist and science journalist
Tomorrow, the EU Migration Pact enters into force – the new asylum and migration system which,...
Ten Years After Brexit: Will Europe’s Oldest Democracies Become Dependents of...
By Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, former President of the EFTA Court (2003-2017), Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Baudenbacher Law AG
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The EU’s NGO Lobby Machine Under Scrutiny
On 13 May, a right-wing majority in the European Parliament decided to extend by another six months a scrutiny committee investigating NGOs that receive...
