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The EU Packaging Regulation is an Act of Self-Harm
By Ruben Cober
The European Commission engages in micromanagement whilst neglecting its core remit
The EU adopts hundreds of laws and regulations without any media attention....
Congo’s War Is the World’s Deadliest – and the World’s Quietest
By Thierry Mariani, Member of the European Parliament
For three decades, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has been the site of one of...
Squaring Europe’s AI Circle
By Stefan Krempl
As the EU draws up its AI strategy for the coming decade, it faces a fundamental challenge: how to reconcile long-term strategic...
Europe’s Eastern Neighbourhood: Can Strategic Interests and Democratic Conditionality Coexist?
By Ganimat Zahid, President of ASİMKOM, the Coordination Centre of Azerbaijani Political Emigrants
The case of Azerbaijan exposes the tension between the European Union’s geopolitical...
Can Europe reverse the decline of its life sciences sector?
By Ernestas Einoris, a senior Expert at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Europe’s life sciences industry has already demonstrated its capacity to deliver major breakthroughs....
Double standards on Eastern Congo: Survivors demand recognition
A conference in the European Parliament, entitled “Breaking the Silence: 1996–2026,” has this week brought together officials from Congolese reparations and transitional justice bodies,...
The Cost of Dismantled Capacity: Why the EU Faces a Refined-Product...
By Professor Em. Samuel Furfari. Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the Energy Directorate-General of the European Commission, where he...
The European economic policy model is getting under strain
As interest rates go up globally, Western European welfare states that have been resisting material reform for decades are feeling the pinch. Most prominently...
The violent threat of the radical left
By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink
Alongside legitimate concerns about the rise of the AfD, radical left-wing parties in Germany also deserve critical...
Protectionism on Credit
By Miłosz Manasterski, a Polish essayist, political commentator, and CEO of Agencja Informacyjna.
Why the EU's defence rules fail the eastern flank
Brussels likes to talk...
