Brussels Report

By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink During a weekend meeting in mid-April at Villa Borsig in Berlin, the leaders of Germany’s governing parties,...

By Jim Higgins, a former member of the European Parliament for Ireland (2004-2014) The international community is confronting an increasingly complex Iran challenge—one that manifests...

By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)  Will the ECB avoid repeating its...

Last year, the partner countries of the World Health Organisation (WHO) signed a so-called ‘pandemic agreement’ on how to tackle future pandemics, such as...

By Thomas Spaas, a Belgian Attorney specialised in Belgian and international tax issues Criticism of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has indeed grown...

Last year, the European Commission presented its plan to catch up in the global race to build artificial intelligence (AI) hubs. Therefore, through leveraging...

By Prof. Vincenzo Musacchio, an expert in criminal law, organised crime and corruption at the Council of Europe Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)...

By Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland When the results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections on 12 April 2026 were announced,...

Political campaigning seems to be increasingly conducted through the court room. Last week, Greenpeace and the American company Energy Transfer faced off in an...

By former Dutch diplomat Johannes Vervloed The war in Iran has brought home the harsh reality to policymakers in Brussels and in the capitals of...

By international affairs specialist Glen Hodgson of Swedish think tank Free Trade Europa In the Taoist text The Liezi, attributed to Lie Yukou, it is said...

By Martin Patzelt, a former member of the German Bundestag. He was part of the German Parliament’s Human Rights Committee for two terms, where...

By Tim Andrews (Prohibitiondoesnotwork.com) A new report from Prohibition Does Not Work (PDNW) finds that the Netherlands’ vaping flavour prohibition has totally undermined any control over...

By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink In December 2010, former VVD leader and ex-European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein (picture) spoke his mind. In...

The Council of European Heads of State or Government wishes to reach an agreement on the long-term European budget by the end of this...

Greenpeace, one of the most well-known NGOs in the world, may be on the verge of bankruptcy, following a loss in a US Court...

By Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson. Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, was founded in 1949 to keep the...

In an interview with Brussels Report, Matthew Robinson, Director of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre, comments the ongoing developments related to the war in Iran....

At the end of March, the European Parliament approved the trade agreement concluded between the EU and the US last summer to stabilise their...

By Prof. Dr. Iur. Dr. rer. pol. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, former President of the EFTA Court (2003-2017), Visiting Professor at the London School of...