The Indo-Pacific region: increasingly important for the West
In 2021, the European Union agreed its “Strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific”, with the intention to “contribute to the region’s stability, security, prosperity...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 29 – with Dalibor Roháč
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Opening up energy markets of EU member states to competition remains...
In this article for Brussels Report, former Irish Europe Minister Dick Roche takes a closer look at the EU's attempts to open up Bulgaria's...
The EU should avoid copying the subsidy policies of the United...
By Prof. Dr. Marc De Vos, a Visiting fellow at Belgian think tank Itinera
In the 21th century, a war is being waged over...
With friends like these, the EU needs no enemies
This week, the European Parliament voted to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035 on,...
A closer look at the dire state of Spain’s public finances
By Spanish economist and entrepreneur José Ramón Riera
As the end of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's term in office is getting nearer, it is time...
The EU’s “Green Deal Industrial Plan” opens a Pandora’s box
By Dr. Ferdinand Meeus
Last week, the European Union presented its «Green Deal Industrial Plan»: a shiny grabbing box, full of new subsidies and tax...
The debate on whether to ban TikTok is not about free...
By Zoltan Kesz, government affairs manager at the Consumer Choice Center and a former member of the Hungarian Parliament.
The intellectual debate among classical liberals on the necessary...
The Czech election result shows trust in our values is crucial...
By Czech MEP Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP, KDU-ČSL)
The Vampires were on the march again in Prague during Halloween, bless their little hearts. Under the watchful...
The EU’s protectionism continues to hold Africa back
By Abdoulie Ceesay, the deputy majority leader of Gambia’s National Assembly
The European Union (EU) has long been a major trading partner with African, Caribbean,...
“The big state is making a comeback at the EU level”...
Speaking in the European Parliament, Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (ECR – SD) addresses Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (EPP – M), who was on...
The Swiss government’s “assessment of Swiss–EU relations” is missing the mark
By Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, former President of the EFTA Court (2003-2017), Partner at law firm Nobel Baudenbacher, Zurich/Brussels and Visiting...
Brexit: Quo vadis?
After the brief spell of Liz Truss as British PM, the British Conservative Party continues to struggle, now running a whopping 22 percent points behind the...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 28 – with Lithuanian economist Elena...
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A closer look at NGOcracy in the EU
By Gunnar Beck, a German Member of European Parliament (AfD-ID) and a reader in law at SOAS, University of London
The Qatargate scandal has exposed...
The EU’s complexity is a strength, not a weakness
By Dalibor Rohac, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C., a research associate at the Martens Centre in Brussels and a Senior Research Fellow...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 27 on the state of public...
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The EU’s minimum wage directive threatens to dismantle well-functioning collective bargaining...
By Christopher Jakoubek, research assistant at EPICENTER, the European Policy Information Center, an independent initiative of ten leading think tanks from across Europe.
The...
NATO veterans deliver critical aid supplies to Kyiv in “Christmas convoy”
Today, an international humanitarian “Christmas Convoy” has arrived in Kyiv to bring relief to the suffering local population by providing 2 million euro worth...
To fight deforestation, the EU could start by not promoting it
Last week, legislation was agreed at the European Union level, imposing a ban on companies to import commodities linked to deforestation into the EU...
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