Book review: “False Alarm” – by Bjorn Lomborg
A book review by Jean-Paul Oury
"Our forests are burning" was the phrase used by French President Macron to announce the “One Planet summit” in...
Decision making within international organisations: a one-sided echo chamber?
This week, the so-called “COP26” United Nations climate talks have started in Glasgow, where more than 120 leaders are about to reportedly negotiate “a...
EU leaders are kicking pressing issues into the long grass
By Dr. Jan Werts, since 1976 a journalist and publicist based in Brussels, including as a correspondent for Dutch publication Haagsche Courant.
Last week’s European...
Can a marriage of convenience between France and Poland save the...
By Alexandre Massaux, editor at French website Contrepoints.org
Today, Polish President Andrzej Duda welcomed his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace. The meeting...
International trade barrier index reveals Western Europe most heavily burdened by...
The Property Rights Alliance has just published the "International Trade Barrier Index (TBI)", assessing how trade barriers have evolved in the context of the...
A look ahead at the 21-22 October EU Summit
Four times per year, EU leaders gather in Brussels. The autumn meeting of this so-called "European Council" is taking place tomorrow.
Typically, the official agenda...
Hungary’s Teflon left
By György Schöpflin, a Hungarian academic and a former Member of the European Parliament (Fidesz) and currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute...
How Southern European politicians vote on trade
By Antonio O’Mullony , a researcher at Spanish think tank Fundación Civismo, specialized in international trade, multilateralism and transatlantic and Iberian American relations
Peace as...
What’s next for the EU’s relationship with the Western Balkans?
Last week, at a summit in Slovenia, EU leaders stopped short of making any further tangible commitment to enlargement to the Western Balkans, instead...
Europe’s green plans are ruinous and destructive
By Samuel Furfari, Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles, President of the European Society for Engineers and Industrialists, and former European Commission official, and...
