Brussels Report

By Martin Banks The EU’s €650 billion COVID recovery fund, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), continues to show multiple weaknesses in fraud detection, reporting...

By Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, former President of the EFTA Court (2003-2017), Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Baudenbacher Law AG  Switzerland's...

At the end of January, the EU managed to conclude a major trade deal with India. This was a key priority for the EU, after securing the...

By Miguel Nunes Silva In Portugal, the insurgent right-wing party CHEGA! (CH | PfE) has secured another upset in its struggle against the establishment. On...

By Derk Jan Eppink, a former Dutch MP and MEP The coalition agreement of the proposed new Dutch minority cabinet led by Rob Jetten (picture -...

Speaking at the New Year's event ‘The Future of Europe’ of Belgian daily De Tijd, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has stated that...

Vincent Bénard, town and country planning engineer and economist, former president of the Brussels-based Hayek Institute, is the author of “The EU Climate Law:...

By Roald Schoenmakers Canada and Europe have rediscovered their moral compass. They are going to work with China to stop Trump's authoritarianism. Seriously. One would...

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Dario Amodei, the ceo of leading US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, strongly criticized the US decision to...

By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee) and Dieter Van Esbroeck, economics...

Right after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen finally signed the landmark free trade agreement with Latin American trading bloc Mercosur, US President...

By Ryan Grillo The muscular foreign policy of President Trump is not about glory for glory’s sake. It is a clear expression of America First. Trump’s...

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), between...

How Europe Can Survive in an Age of Unreliable Partners By Joshua Livestro, a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs "The United...

By Martin Vlachynský, Analyst at the Institute of Economic and Social Studies in Slovakia, 4liberty.eu It started with curved bananas, continued with cookie banners and lightbulb bans,...

2025 was not an uneventful year for Europe. While the war in Ukraine raged on, Donald Trump put the European Union under considerable pressure,...

By Morten Jarlbæk Pedersen It is neither a secret nor news that Europe's security policy situation has changed both rapidly and drastically over the past...

The EU’s Digital Gulag (or How to Catch Wild Hogs) By Seth Hertlein, VP and Global Head of Policy at Ledger.   Good morning. It is an honor...

As Ukrainian peace talks continue, on Friday, a major legal breach of the EU Treaty occurred. The EU Council of Member States agreed with...

By Elena Leontjeva, President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute Competitiveness is a strange beast—always measured against outsiders, yet forged internally. In her annual address,...