Brussels Report

Writing exclusively for Brussels Report, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher,  President of the EFTA Court  between 2003 and 2017, where he served as...

By Robert Tyler, Senior Policy Advisor at EU affairs think tank New Direction For a long time now, the EU has been struggling with the challenge of...

As the “Delta variant” continues to plague the world, widespread Covid vaccination across Europe seems to keep hospitalization in check. Still, many Europeans are...

Pascal Salin (born in 1939) is a prominent French economist, professor emeritus at the Université Paris-Dauphine and a specialist in public finance and monetary...

The important policy strategy adopted by the European Central Bank this month wasn’t decided without a fight. Especially last week’s decision on its so-called...

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A new study by French think tank Institut Économique Molinari and Americans for Tax Reform Foundation provides a new country-by-country comparison  of the tax...

By Alex Sassen Van Elsloo, a Dutch finance expert and research consultant When the euro was being designed, a lot was already wrong. The designers...

By Dan Kral, Europe Economist By now, 24 out of 27 governments have submitted their national recovery and resilience plans to unlock funds from the EU’s...

By Dutch MEP Rob Roos (JA21, ECR), formerly an entrepreneur in the energy and telecom sectors  The success of our Western society has been determined...

By Matthias Bauer, Senior Economist at EU trade and economic policy think tank ECIPE Following fresh calls from the Biden administration to raise corporate tax...

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This week, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen repeated her sharp criticism of Hungary's legislation banning ‘displaying or promoting” homosexuality to people under 18....

Last week, the list with entities which received European Parliament grants in 2020 was published. This list can be downloaded here. It makes for some...

By Javier Santacruz, Lead Researcher at Spanish classical liberal think tank Civismo Last month, the decision making process to get the EU’s so-called “Digital Services...

On Friday, 16 political parties from both the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and the Identity and Democracy (ID) groups in the European Parliament...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) has decided to withhold his signature for the German law approving reform of the 500 billion euro "European Stability...

With the opening of the European tourist season, the EU-wide “COVID-19 certificate” has also entered into force today. The certificate, also dubbed EU Covid...

By Andreas Hellmann, International Advocacy Manager, Americans for Tax Reform Foundation Earlier this month, G7 leaders endorsed U.S. President Biden’s administration’s plan to implement a...

According to The Times, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel (picture) will introduce legislation next week to enable the UK government to send asylum seekers...