Why the Cover-Up?
By Dick Roche, an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who has served, amongst others, as Minister of State for European Affairs from 2002 to 2004...
The EU debate on electric mobility is heating up
In an interview with the German daily Die Welt, German CDU MEP Manfred Weber, who leads the EPP group in the European Parliament, has...
“Nine policy changes to make Europe competitive again”
The Growth Commission, a non-partisan group of thirteen international economists dedicated to supporting growth as measured by GDP per capita has just released a...
Von der Leyen’s speech reveals the rather poor state of the...
Earlier this week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual “State of the Union” speech in Strasbourg. The German technocrat’s popularity...
The bond vigilantes are closing in
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)
The downfall of the Bayrou government in...
“Our break from history is over” – Belgian PM Bart De...
Delivering the prestigious HJ Schoo lecture in Amsterdam on 4 September 2025, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has outlined his vision for a...
Is Reckoning Day approaching for European Welfare States?
A cornered welfare state may make some authoritarian moves
At the end of last month, Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany, Western Europe’s leading economy,...
Europe should unlock its pension savings for investment into AI and...
By Ernestas Einoris, an Expert at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
The European Union finds itself in a paradoxical situation. The population is ageing, the...
The EU may achieve “Net Zero”: Zero Industry, Zero Prosperity, Zero...
By Professor Em. Samuel Furfari. He is a Chemical Engineer, having taught energy geopolitics and energy politics at Brussels ULB University (Université Libre de Bruxelles),...
Stop harmonising and regulating: a pragmatic proposal to allow Europe to...
By Peter De Keyzer, a founding partner of Growth Inc.
While the US has a single market and a single set of rules, we in Europe are...
