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...
A “first step” towards a more stable EU trade relationship with...
Yesterday, the EU and US finally published a joint statement detailing what EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed with Trump at the...
Surveillance of chats is a terrible idea
By Quinten Jacobs, a Belgian constitutional lawyer, and Adriaan Jacobs, a Belgian PhD researcher in cybersecurity at DistriNet (KU Leuven)
Are you okay with your...
A breakthrough for peace in Ukraine or more of the same?
Opinions are divided on what US President Donald Trump has achieved so far in his attempts to bring peace to Ukraine. One important fact...
Assessing the start of Trump’s second term
By Martin Banks
The perceived wisdom is that Donald Trump is “public enemy No.1” and that the sooner his 2nd term in office ends the...
Joint EU borrowing presents the perfect storm for the centralisation of...
By Samuel Martin, Editor-in-Chief of The Mallard and freelance writer interested in immigration, trade, and European politics
You don’t need to be an economist to...
The EU’s regulatory micromanagement is causing economic asphyxiation
By Adam Bartha, Director of EPICENTER, the network of leading European free-market think tanks
There was a time when Europe set the global economic pace. Not...
