Joint EU borrowing presents the perfect storm for the centralisation of...
By Samuel Martin, Editor-in-Chief of The Mallard and freelance writer interested in immigration, trade, and European politics
You don’t need to be an economist to...
The EU’s regulatory micromanagement is causing economic asphyxiation
By Adam Bartha, Director of EPICENTER, the network of leading European free-market think tanks
There was a time when Europe set the global economic pace. Not...
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do? Get Married
By Anne Struffmann
If I said that marriage is becoming irrelevant in the 21st century, few in the West would push back. Marriage is no...
The Brussels NGO scandal continues to expand
The Brussels NGO scandal continues to expand. Now, the European Taxpayers’ Association (TAE) have filed an official complaint against former EU commissioners Frans Timmermans...
Europe’s blind spot
By Cristian Gherasim, a journalist, analyst and foreign affairs expert
While Brussels frets about Ukraine and America, a crisis festers from within
Twenty years on Europe is...
Scrapping green policies remains a taboo in Brussels
During the 2024 European Parliament elections, green parties suffered heavy losses and since then, they have lost even more support in the polls. However,...
Europe’s Southern Neighbourhood Is Becoming a Major Security Challenge
By Cristian Gherasim, a journalist, analyst and foreign affairs expert
While the war in Ukraine, tensions with the United States, and turmoil in the Middle...
The EU’s Chemical Industry Action Plan undermines investment
By Tom Parker - Chair of the British Chamber of Commerce EU and Belgium’s Policy Council.
Last week, the European Commission published its "European Chemical...
More Taxes, More Debt, More Spending: Brussels’ New Seven-Year Budget Plan
On Wednesday, the European Commission will present its final proposal for the EU's new long term budget, the 2028-2034 "multiannual financial framework" (MFF). As...
Europe’s Strategic Blind Spot: Securing Undersea Cables
By Lyndon Li, freelance journalist who has authored articles for the Financial Times and Voice of America
A series of disruptions to subsea communications cables...
When will EU health policy makers look at the successes in...
By Alberto Gómez Hernández, Policy Manager at the World Vapers Alliance
Europe's Harm Reduction Champions Take the Podium—Will the EU Finally Follow?
Last week, Brussels became...
The bond market, corporate America and China have reined in Trump
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)
The bond market, warnings from the American...
A violation of the rule of law in Albania
By Shqiponje Veliaj, mother of Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana
Just over four months ago, my family was suddenly engulfed in a Kafkaesque nightmare. On...
A conflict of interest clouds the EU Parliament’s review of Bulgaria’s...
By MEP Auke Zijlstra
On 1 January 2026, the time will have come. Bulgaria will officially become the twenty-first member state of the eurozone. Only six...
“Growing skepticism of the EU Green Deal is putting pressure on...
EU Matrix, an award-winning tech-driven political foresight tool, has published a new data intelligence report, looking at the economic policy positions taken by the...
Is a politicised judiciary taking precedence over legal principles?
At the Festschrift-Seminar for Prof. Dr. Dr. Mads Andenæs on 19 June 2025, the EFTA Court's long time President, Carl Baudenbacher, gave the following...
There is a democratic deficit at the heart of EU policy...
By Michael Landl, Director of the World Vapers’ Alliance
As the World Conference on Tobacco Control unfolded in Dublin this week, a powerful visual protest...
In the trade war, reality is setting in
The trade war unleashed by US President Donald Trump has set a lot of things in motion. First and foremost, it seems to have...
The EU continues to ignore Sweden’s public health successes
By Beatriz Santos
The European Union is significantly falling behind its target of becoming smoke-free by 2040. According to the findings of the Special Eurobarometer...
Is the ECB Moving Too Fast on Rate Cuts?
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)
In just one year, the ECB has...
