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...
The solution to the Dutch nitrogen crisis is to modify EU...
Large-scale farmer protests have erupted in the Netherlands against the Dutch government's nitrogen reduction targets, which result from European Union rules on reducing nitrogen...
A closer look at the Primacy of EU law
At a recent event in Brussels hosted by Brussels Report, in cooperation with Bündnis Bürgerwille e.V. and the Property Rights Alliance, the former longtime...
The “Conference on the Future of Europe” reveals the goals of...
By Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (SD – ECR)
Hardly any ordinary voters have heard of the 'Conference on the Future of Europe' also known as “CoFoE”. Even...
Getting it right on crypto regulation
By Guy Burton, an Adjunct Professor at the Brussels School of Governance, where he teaches politics and international relations.
Crypto assets are moving into the...
Interview with Karl-Friedrich Israel: “The euro has been an inflationary currency...
Antonis Giannakopoulos interviews Dr. Karl-Friedrich Israel, a frequent commentator on Eurozone economics. Dr. Israel is an assistant professor at the department of economics and...
The longer the Eurozone avoids budgetary discipline, the more painful the...
Annual inflation in the Eurozone continues to increase, from 7.4 percent in April 2022 to 8.1 percent in May, beating expectations of 7.8 percent,...
Assessing the effectiveness of EU trade deals
By Giacomo Da Ros, Istituto Bruno Leoni, an Italian member think tank of the EPICENTER network
Among economists, there is widespread consensus on the benefits...
