Brussels Report

Last week, at a summit in Slovenia, EU leaders stopped short of making any further tangible commitment to enlargement to the Western Balkans, instead...

By Samuel Furfari, Professor at Université libre de Bruxelles, President of the European Society for Engineers and Industrialists, and former European Commission official, and...

On Thursday, the Polish Constitutional Court ruled that several provisions contained by the Treaty of the European Union were incompatible with the Polish constitution,...

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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...

By Antonis Giannakopoulos, an economics student at Athens University Since the start of the pandemic, we have witnessed major imbalances to supply and demand...

Following the German elections, attention in Europe has now shifted to France’s Presidential Election , which will take place in April 2022. Over the...

By Ivan Van de Cloot, Chief Economist at Belgian public policy think tank Itinera Institute, author of several books on financial economics and public...

During the last two decades, the European Union has been very successful in concluding trade agreements with countries outside the EU. It has concluded...

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...

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...

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 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...

In a response to a parliamentary question by German MEP Engin Eroglu (Renew Europe, Free Voters), the European Central Bank sheds some light on...

Yesterday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave her so-called “State of the Union speech”, addressing MEPs in Strasbourg. It may surprise that...

The EU has struggled to exert the remotest foreign policy influence over the Afghanistan debacle, despite the efforts by the legion of eurocrats employed...

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By Peter Grimm, a German journalist, writer and documentary producer, who also used to be a member of the opposition against the East German...

By Dr. iur. Laura Melusine Baudenbacher, Managing Partner, Baudenbacher Law Ltd., Zurich I.              Introduction “Values” seem to have become an EU buzzword in a number of...

Michel Barnier – of Brexit negotiator fame – seems to have ruffled some feathers when doubling down on his push to succeed Emmanuel Macron...