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The EU is on a mission to control information
By Maaike van Charante
The EU is increasingly behaving like a superstate with totalitarian traits - including censorship - and it desperately needs a...
Is the EU adopting a more flexible attitude in its trade...
The first five years of Ursula von der Leyen were not a great success for EU trade policy. Yes, her Commission managed to conclude...
Introducing a “Universal Basic Income” is a bad idea
By Elena Leontjeva, President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Artificial intelligence and robots will soon create prosperity that will make human work superfluous,...
The “cordon sanitaire” in the European Parliament: a misguided strategy
By Máté Hajba
Most political parties in the newly elected European Parliament are fully united in drawing up a ‘cordon sanitaire’ around those parties they...
The euro is a Frankenstein Monster
By Prof. Dr. Thorsten Polleit
In 1818, the English writer Mary W. Shelly (1797-1851, picture) published her gruesome novel ‘Frankenstein. The Modern Prometheus’, which became...
The EU and the ECB are to blame for high inflation
Newly released Eurostat figures reveal that public debt levels of the 20 member states of the Eurozone have now reached a record level of 88.7 percent...
How to increase the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia
By Volodimir Dubrovskiy.
The author is a senior economist at CASE Ukraine, where he is responsible for research and publications in the fields of macroeconomics,...
Third-party financing of lawsuits: a growing challenge
‘Litigation funding’, also known as ‘third-party funding’ allows individuals and groups who would otherwise lack the financial resources, to pursue litigation. Recently, it received...
“A victory for the greens”
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1813980765262381494
Pieter Cleppe, editor-in-chief of BrusselsReport.eu, discusses the European Parliament’s vote in support of a second term for Ursula von der Leyen, at GB News....
A “European army” is still a bad idea
By Ricardo Filipe, a policy fellow with Young Voices Europe based in Setúbal, Portugal. He specialises in European policy. Ricardo is also an active member...
Citizens are asking for change, not for patchwork coalitions with nothing...
By Matteo Albania, Communication strategist, EU political analyst and social media consultant
No, the centre didn't hold, and the "cordon sanitaire" is the only thing...
The end of the road for Macron?
By Miguel Nunes Silva, Director of Portugese think tank Trezeno Institute
When Emmanuel Macron was first elected President of France in 2017, the Hexagon was already in...
EU Court of Auditors slams joint EU purchasing of gas
By Belgian journalist Lode Goukens
In a new report, the European Court of Auditors has criticised the European Union's joint purchasing of gas. In 2022, during...
A digital spy in every mobile phone, for your own good
By Dutch science journalist Arnout Jaspers
Shortly after the European Parliament elections, the European Council of Ministers was due to vote on a far-reaching...
The original eurozone deal has been violated
By Jean Wanningen, economist and publicist
Remember when former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok assured the Dutch parliament that the agreements from the European Stability...
Despite voters rejecting the green deal, the EU continues with “business...
This week, European leaders meet in Brussels to discuss the distribution of so-called EU top jobs. Despite all the uncertainty, it is looking pretty...
On the wisdom of economic sanctions
By international affairs specialist Glen Hodgson of Swedish think tank Free Trade Europa
Sweden has been a steadfast supporter of Ukraine, providing financial aid, humanitarian assistance,...
The EU needs a bonfire of regulations to regain its competitiveness
By Adam Bartha, Director of EPICENTER, the network of leading European free-market think tanks.
EU legislation increased by more than 700% since the implementation of the Maastricht...
ESG and the influence of the radical green agenda
The Croatian economic policy portal Economic Lab (Ekonomski Lab) hereunder outlines a summary of the analysis “Ideological risks as the other side of ESG”...
