“Trusted flaggers” threaten free speech
By Prof. Dr. Josef Franz Lindner, who teaches Public Law, Medical Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Augsburg
In an article dated...
The EU could respond to Trump by slashing its own protectionism
The European Union has prepared measures against American products as a possible response to President Donald Trump's decision to impose a 25% tariff on...
The European Commission: A source of misinformation
By Alberto Gómez Hernández, Economist and Policy Manager at the World Vapers' Alliance
"Smoking kills, vaping kills." That’s what EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said in...
ECJ’s Advocate General requests to annul EU Minimum Wage Directive
In a significant legal development, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) recommended last month the annulment of the EU Minimum...
Germany’s election is turning into a referendum on asylum policy
By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink
After an eventful and intense debate in the Bundestag, the ‘Asylwende’ has become the issue...
The EU’s competitiveness strategy is not adequate
By Nicos Rompapas, Director of the Center for Liberal Studies (KEFiM), Greece
Since Mario Draghi’s influential report on European Competitiveness, public discourse has largely converged...
Privatising railways as the alternative to disfunctional public train companies
Ricardo Filipe is a fellow with Young Voices Europe based in Portugal and a writer on politics and policy.
The inefficiencies of public railway companies...
The EU’s crackdown on “Big Tech” risks US retaliation
After Elon Musk, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has come out against the EU’s digital policies, complaining that “Europe has an ever increasing number of...
Europe is in danger of regulating its technology market out of...
By Lika Kobeshavidze
While the American tech sector has driven astonishing economic growth, leading to booming salaries and standards of living, Europe has languished behind....
Indebted EU member states propose a common credit card: Who would...
By Ernestas Einoris, policy analyst at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
A pivotal 400-page report on the competitiveness of the European Union (EU), authored by...
