International trade barrier index reveals Western Europe most heavily burdened by...
The Property Rights Alliance has just published the "International Trade Barrier Index (TBI)", assessing how trade barriers have evolved in the context of the...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 12 – discusssing EU energy policy...
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A look ahead at the 21-22 October EU Summit
Four times per year, EU leaders gather in Brussels. The autumn meeting of this so-called "European Council" is taking place tomorrow.
Typically, the official agenda...
Hungary’s Teflon left
By György Schöpflin, a Hungarian academic and a former Member of the European Parliament (Fidesz) and currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute...
How Southern European politicians vote on trade
By Antonio O’Mullony , a researcher at Spanish think tank Fundación Civismo, specialized in international trade, multilateralism and transatlantic and Iberian American relations
Peace as...
The battle of the euro
By Prof. Dr. Adriaan Schout (1961), Professor at Radboud University and senior expert at the Clingendael Institute, and Jan-Hein Jesse MBA (1961) , a...
What’s next for the EU’s relationship with the Western Balkans?
Last week, at a summit in Slovenia, EU leaders stopped short of making any further tangible commitment to enlargement to the Western Balkans, instead...
Europe’s green plans are ruinous and destructive
By Samuel Furfari, Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles, President of the European Society for Engineers and Industrialists, and former European Commission official, and...
An overview of national top courts challenging the supremacy of EU...
On Thursday, the Polish Constitutional Court ruled that several provisions contained by the Treaty of the European Union were incompatible with the Polish constitution,...
The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 11 – a closer look at...
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Tax collection should be fragmented
By Jamie Whyte, a London-based writer, formerly the Leader of ACT, a classical-liberal political party in New Zealand.
In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith...
Price controls are not the right method to counter inflation
By Antonis Giannakopoulos, an economics student at Athens University
Since the start of the pandemic, we have witnessed major imbalances to supply and demand...
Eric Zemmour: The Dark horse of France’s Presidential Election?
Following the German elections, attention in Europe has now shifted to France’s Presidential Election , which will take place in April 2022. Over the...
What if the ECB is wrong about inflation?
By Ivan Van de Cloot, Chief Economist at Belgian public policy think tank Itinera Institute, author of several books on financial economics and public...
Is EU protectionism on the rise?
During the last two decades, the European Union has been very successful in concluding trade agreements with countries outside the EU. It has concluded...
The ECB’s green fig leaf isn’t a pretty sight
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee and Professor of Economics...
Merkel’s failures – an overview
After almost 16 years as German Chancellor, Angela Merkel is leaving office. During that time, she was Europe’s most powerful politician, at the helm...
Macron is not about to replace Merkel at the helm of...
By Alexandre Massaux, editor at French website Contrepoints.org
Following the upcoming German elections, Chancellor Merkel's era will come to an end. In addition, from January...
Following Aukus, it’s time for France to go back to the...
Following the announcement of the so-called AUKUS security partnership between the U.S., Australia and the United Kingdom, France reacted as if it had been...
ECB specifies how increased interest rates may damage its balance sheet
In a response to a parliamentary question by German MEP Engin Eroglu (Renew Europe, Free Voters), the European Central Bank sheds some light on...
