Brussels Report

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 large gains in the price of bitcoin over the last year have once again increased attention for this so-called "crypto currency". Meanwhile, however,...

In an interview with EUObserver, Italian criminal law Professor Vincenzo Musacchio makes a remarkable statement on what has happened to the billions of euros...

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 what has focused minds in the “Brussels bubble” this week, with many expressing indignation over how during a meeting in Ankara between...

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...

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...

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...

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  Last Friday, the German Constitutional Court ruled to suspend the German law ratifying...

After the EU imposed sanctions on Chinese officials over the plight of the Uighurs in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, China has responded by...

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...

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...

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...

By Robert Tyler (political strategist, working for a European political party) There have been growing calls for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to...

Following the Dutch 2021 election, Dutch Professor of European Public Administration Adriaan Schout, who teaches at Radboud University Nijmegen, outlines a long term vision...

At their summit this Thursday and Friday, EU state and government leaders will need to give their say on the proposal by the European...

by Frank Schäffler, a Member of the German Parliament for the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He has served in this role from 2005 until...

fIn something resembling an escalation, European Commission President von der Leyen yesterday threatened to block vaccine exports, unless the EU ‘gets its fair share’....

The EU failed to secure vaccines as quickly as the U.K., the U.S. and Israel Whatever the reason, not as many Covid vaccines...