Brussels Report

At the 17 October EU Summit in Brussels, a number of remarkable things were agreed. Notably, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk managed to get...

By Ian Golan As the possibility of Trump returning to the White House looms, Ukraine’s future hangs in the balance. In all likelihood, if Trump...

Judge, jury and executioner: how the EU’s public health department set up its pet anti-vaping NGO to help restrict safer nicotine products By Peter Beckett,...

At the 30th anniversary of the EFTA Court, its long time President, Carl Baudenbacher, gave the following speech. Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Carl Baudenbacher...

By Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Spanish Professor of Nuclear Physics, former Vice President of the European Parliament (1999-2014) and President of the International Committee in...

Apart from diplomacy and elections, also courts play an increasingly important role in driving policy. Important are in particular private arbitration courts, where also...

By Belgian economist Ivan Van de Cloot, affiliated with think tank Merito Like any other government intervention, we need to evaluate EU (over)regulation in terms...

With the appointment of Michel Barnier (picture) as French Prime Minister, French President Emmanuel Macron has effectively made the French government dependent on Marine...

By Michael Landl, Director of the World Vapers' Alliance The European Commission’s recent recommendation to include vaping in smoke-free environments is a catastrophic misstep. By...

Professor Em. Samuel Furfari is a Chemical Engineer, having taught energy geopolitics and energy politics at Brussels ULB University (Université Libre de Bruxelles), between...

By Syp Wynia, editor-in-chief of Dutch magazine Wynia's Week These are lousy days for passionate Europhiles, asylum advocates and in general for the political left....

By Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, former President of the EFTA Court (2003-2017) and currently Partner at Baudenbacher Kvernberg, lawyers and advisors as...

For the first time in its 87-year history; Germany's biggest employer, Volkswagen, is considering to shut down factories in the car manufacturer's country of...

By international affairs specialist Glen Hodgson of Swedish think tank Free Trade Europa In central Stockholm stands a statue entitled “The Worker” by Mikael Katz (picture)....

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By Maaike van Charante The EU is increasingly behaving like a superstate with totalitarian traits - including censorship - and it desperately needs a...

The first five years of Ursula von der Leyen were not a great success for EU trade policy. Yes, her Commission managed to conclude...

By Elena Leontjeva, President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute Artificial intelligence and robots will soon create prosperity that will make human work superfluous,...

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...

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...