Brussels Report

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...

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...

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...

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. Now, the European Taxpayers’ Association (TAE) have filed an official complaint against former EU commissioners Frans Timmermans...

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...

During the 2024 European Parliament elections, green parties suffered heavy losses and since then, they have lost even more support in the polls. However,...