A closer look at the EU’s new murky joint borrowing schemes
A closer look at the EU’s new murky joint borrowing schemes
Last Friday, the German Constitutional Court ruled to suspend the German law ratifying...
Counterview: How should Europe position itself towards China?
After the EU imposed sanctions on Chinese officials over the plight of the Uighurs in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, China has responded by...
The shaky legal basis of the EU Recovery Fund
By MEP Charlie Weimers
Following the German Supreme Court’s decision to suspend ratification of EU “Recovery Fund”, Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (SD-ECR) takes a look...
The EU’s vaccine export restriction scheme: a “pistol” on the table
Yesterday, at their Summit-by-webinar, despite differences, EU leaders endorsed the sharpening up of the EU’s vaccine export restriction mechanism, with some caveats.
A group including...
Why von der Leyen won’t go
By Robert Tyler (political strategist, working for a European political party)
There have been growing calls for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to...
What future for the European Union: Integration or Cooperation?
Following the Dutch 2021 election, Dutch Professor of European Public Administration Adriaan Schout, who teaches at Radboud University Nijmegen, outlines a long term vision...
EU vaccine protectionism: The plot thickens
At their summit this Thursday and Friday, EU state and government leaders will need to give their say on the proposal by the European...
EU Member States should resist Von der Leyen’s protectionist vaccine export...
fIn something resembling an escalation, European Commission President von der Leyen yesterday threatened to block vaccine exports, unless the EU ‘gets its fair share’....
Five ways in which the EU mismanaged vaccine policy
The EU failed to secure vaccines as quickly as the U.K., the U.S. and Israel
Whatever the reason, not as many Covid vaccines...
An ever shrinking number of Member States is shouldering the cost...
By Herman Matthijs (Professor in public finance at the Universities of Ghent and Brussels and a member of Belgium’s High Council of Finance)
Since the...
