Brussels Report

By Juan Rafael Taborcía, Global Spokesperson for Considerate Pouchers The European Union has promised its citizens a smoke-free future by 2040. On paper, it sounds...

This Summer, the European Commission proposed five new proposed income sources for the EU’s new long term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework (“MFF”), scheduled to...

By Michel Portier, Lecturer at Hogeschool Arnhem and Nijmegen On 14 October, the European Council will vote on what is perhaps the most controversial proposal...

By international affairs specialist Glen Hodgson of Swedish think tank Free Trade Europa The American author Norman Vincent Peale is quoted as saying that any action...

Recently, the EU has achieved some progress when it comes to opening up its global trade, to offset the new trading barriers introduced by...

By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)   One year after the publication date...

By Dick Roche, an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who has served, amongst others, as Minister of State for European Affairs from 2002 to 2004...

In an interview with the German daily Die Welt, German CDU MEP Manfred Weber, who leads the EPP group in the European Parliament, has...

The Growth Commission, a non-partisan group of thirteen international economists dedicated to supporting growth as measured by GDP per capita has just released a...

Earlier this week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual “State of the Union” speech in Strasbourg. The German technocrat’s popularity...

By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)  The downfall of the Bayrou government in...

Delivering the prestigious HJ Schoo lecture in Amsterdam on 4 September 2025, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has outlined his vision for a...

A cornered welfare state may make some authoritarian moves At the end of last month, Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany, Western Europe’s leading economy,...

By Ernestas Einoris, an Expert at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute The European Union finds itself in a paradoxical situation. The population is ageing, the...

By Professor Em. Samuel Furfari. He is a Chemical Engineer, having taught energy geopolitics and energy politics at Brussels ULB University (Université Libre de Bruxelles),...

By Peter De Keyzer, a founding partner of Growth Inc. While the US has a single market and a single set of rules, we in Europe are...

Yesterday, the EU and US finally published a joint statement detailing what EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed with Trump at the...

By Quinten Jacobs, a Belgian constitutional lawyer, and Adriaan Jacobs, a Belgian PhD researcher in cybersecurity at DistriNet (KU Leuven) Are you okay with your...

Opinions are divided on what US President Donald Trump has achieved so far in his attempts to bring peace to Ukraine. One important fact...

By Martin Banks The perceived wisdom is that Donald Trump is “public enemy No.1” and that the sooner his 2nd term in office ends the...