In defense of tax competition within the EU
Earlier this month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for a global minimum corporate tax rate. The proposal was quickly backed by Germany and...
The “European Green Deal”: another fateful attempt at central planning
By Fabian Wintersberger, Rates Trader and Economist, based in Austria
Today, the European Parliament and EU governments closed a deal on how far to go...
Does the Conference on the Future of Europe present EU citizens...
By Pelle Christy Geertsen (EU expert, analyst, commentator, and lobbyist)
Yesterday, there was yet another press conference and a whole lot of communication on...
Sofagate should serve as a warning not to trust the EU...
by Robert Tyler (political strategist, working for a European political party)
”Sofagate”, in which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was deprived a chair...
The Brussels Report Podcast – Episode 1 – With Lex Hoogduin
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Spain’s spending of EU recovery funds threatens to turn into a...
By Daniel Rodríguez Asensio, a Spanish economist and strategy consultant, who’s the founder and President of think tank Acción Liberal.
The game for European...
During Germany’s “super election year”, the EU looks like an afterthought
By Pieter de Jonge, a Dutch historian and publicist
2021 has been dubbed “Superwahljahr”, or “super election year”, in Germany: elections are being held in...
The fate of “E-gold” as a warning to cryptocurrencies
The large gains in the price of bitcoin over the last year have once again increased attention for this so-called "crypto currency". Meanwhile, however,...
Is the mafia about to get a massive financial injection from...
In an interview with EUObserver, Italian criminal law Professor Vincenzo Musacchio makes a remarkable statement on what has happened to the billions of euros...
A conference without a purpose
By Pelle Christy Geertsen (EU expert, analyst, commentator, and lobbyist)
The work on the “Conference on the Future of Europe” (CoFoE) is finally underway. At...
“Sofagate” is yet more evidence of the EU’s foreign policy weakness
“Sofagate” is what has focused minds in the “Brussels bubble” this week, with many expressing indignation over how during a meeting in Ankara between...
The case against the EU vaccine passport
By Bill Wirtz (freelance journalist from Luxembourg and Senior Policy Analyst at the Consumer Choice Center)
In Brussels, the European Commission and Member States have...
In defense of the German Constitutional Court
Writing for BrusselsReport.eu, Ravel Meeth, the Chairman of German NGO Bündnis Bürgerwille or the “Citizens' Will Alliance”, which initiated the lawsuit challenging German ratification...
In Bulgaria, the “Borissov -system” is being kept afloat by EU...
By Professor Krassen Stanchev (Professor of Macroeconomic Analysis and Public Choice Theory at Sofia University, former MP at the Bulgarian Constitutional Assembly (1990-1991), founder...
Eurozone inflation is on fire when it comes to the prices...
By Daniel Lacalle, Chief Economist at Tressis
For more than ten years, ECB monetary policy has been ultra-expansionary, whether there was crisis, a recovery, economic...
A closer look at the EU’s new murky joint borrowing schemes
A closer look at the EU’s new murky joint borrowing schemes
Last Friday, the German Constitutional Court ruled to suspend the German law ratifying...
Counterview: How should Europe position itself towards China?
After the EU imposed sanctions on Chinese officials over the plight of the Uighurs in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, China has responded by...
The shaky legal basis of the EU Recovery Fund
By MEP Charlie Weimers
Following the German Supreme Court’s decision to suspend ratification of EU “Recovery Fund”, Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (SD-ECR) takes a look...
The EU’s vaccine export restriction scheme: a “pistol” on the table
Yesterday, at their Summit-by-webinar, despite differences, EU leaders endorsed the sharpening up of the EU’s vaccine export restriction mechanism, with some caveats.
A group including...
Are the extremely easy financing conditions for European governments the new...
By Dan Kral, Europe Economist
When ECB President Christine Lagarde’s remarked in mid-March 2020 that “the ECB is not here to close spreads”, the...
