Flemish government urges EU to lower ETS prices
At the end of August, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen rejected a demand by the Polish government to temporarily suspend the...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 24 – The EU’s policy towards...
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It is getting time for the EU to abandon its green...
As Winter is approaching, Europe is trying to come to grips with a massive energy crisis, with energy prices breaching record heights, worsened by what...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 23 – with economist Matthias Bauer
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To tackle inflation, the ECB should turn off the printing press
By Eelco Heinen, a Dutch Member of Parliament for the governing “People's Party for Freedom and Democracy” (VVD)
Prices continue to increase and our purchasing...
More fiscal transfers, inflation and a depreciating euro haunt the EU
By Herman Matthijs (Professor in public finance at the Universities of Ghent and Brussels and President of Belgium’s High Council of Finance)
To cope with the...
Five proposals for abundant and cheap energy
By Samuel Furfari, formerly a senior official at the Energy Directorate-General of the European Commission (1982-2018), Professor em. at Université libre de Bruxelles and...
Is Portugal sliding into socialist authoritarianism?
By Miguel Silva, Director of conservative Portuguese think tank Trezeno Institute and a local councilman affiliated with the CHEGA party. His career includes several...
A comparison of the two contenders vying to lead Britain
On the 5th of September, we will know who will succeed Boris Johson as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after 175.000...
A closer look at the poor track record of Spanish PM...
By Spanish economist and entrepreneur José Ramón Riera
In my first article for Brussels Report, I take a look at the track record of Spanish...
Europe cannot fix the food crisis on its own
By Polish MEP Ryszard Czarnecki (ECR – PiS)
In this opinion piece for Brussels Report, MEP Czarnecki urges the EU to ask its partners to...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 22 – with Swedish ECR MEP...
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EU tackling state aid is becoming ever more politicised
The EU was never perfect when it comes to policing state aid, but at least in the past, it regularly stopped member state governments...
“Looking back at the Conference on the Future of Europe”
Research paper authored by Pieter Cleppe, provided to the European Parliament
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 21 – with Dr. Stephanie Daher...
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To counter forced labour in supply chains, a targeted approach is...
An important part of the debate on how the West and its democratic allies can avoid forced labour in supply chains revolves around whether...
European governments and the EU are fuelling the cost of living...
By Adam Bartha, Director of EPICENTER, the network of leading European free-market think tanks.
The cost of energy, food, and housing is skyrocketing – and...
The end of an era
The resignation of Boris Johnson as British Prime Minister was not unexpected, but it still caused quite a stir, also because how strongly the...
EU Neighbourhood Watch – Monitoring EU relations with the UK and...
Every month, Brussels Report’s editor-in-chief Pieter Cleppe provides an update on how EU interactions with its economically most important neighbours, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, have...
The danger of a digital iron curtain
In an article for Brussels Report, former Irish Europe Minister Dick Roche takes up the defence of Huawei in the face of the increased...
