New Basel banking regulations may put smaller banks out of business
By Jorge Muñoz
What if the regulation designed to solve banking problems only ends up making them worse? This is the critical question surrounding Basel...
Is the US-EU trade war about to spiral out of control?
Free trade is under pressure. This is not only the result of US President Donald Trump's new tariffs, the latest of which include 25...
Searching for a silver bullet
By international affairs specialist Glen Hodgson of Swedish think tank Free Trade Europa
The American businessman, investor and author Ben Horowitz once stated that there is...
Will the EU finally start to dismantle its excessive bureaucracy?
By Ernestas Einoris, a policy expert at the Lithuanian Free Market Institute
EU policymakers have recognized that attempting to grow the European economy under the...
Could the EU’s Digital Markets Act weaken platform security?
By Professor Giuseppe Colangelo, Jean Monnet Professor of European Innovation Policy and Associate Professor of Law and
Economics, University of Basilicata
The revival of regulation has...
Europe is turning into a planned economy with massive debt
By Derk Jan Eppink, a former Dutch MP and MEP
In the European Union, plans are piling up. In the summer of 2020, the 750-billion-euro...
The European climate emperor has no clothes
By Peter De Keyzer, a founding partner of Growth Inc.
The EU's Industrial Clean Act was announced last month with much fanfare. De facto, the...
Innovation is the way forward for the EU
By Arta Haxhixhemajli
The EU needs deregulation. That does not mean compromising on any core principles. It means smarter, streamlined policies which promote efficiency without...
The EU is pushing the European car industry to the brink
By Dutch Member of European Parliament Sander Smit (EPP, BBB)
From 2035, new cars in the European Union will no longer be allowed to emit...
Joint EU debt for European defence investment is a questionable idea
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee)
Europe faces a huge task rebuilding adequate...
Postponing EU sustainability reporting rules and covering fewer companies is insufficient
By Otto Brøns-Petersen, director of analysis and Line Andersen, economist, at Danish think tank CEPOS
The Draghi-report concluded that excessive EU regulation is detrimental to...
When price caps become political weapons
By Zoltán Kész, government affairs manager at the Consumer Choice Center and a former member of the Hungarian Parliament
The Minister for Economy “has been...
Simplification is not enough. The EU needs to slash climate policies
The EU’s clean industrial deal is anything but sufficient for European industry
This week, the European Commission published its proposed “clean industrial deal”, which...
With foresight, fighting against false prophets: Frits Bolkestein (1933-2025)
By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink
I first met Frits Bolkestein in September 1991. He was the newly appointed party leader of the...
“Trusted flaggers” threaten free speech
By Prof. Dr. Josef Franz Lindner, who teaches Public Law, Medical Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Augsburg
In an article dated...
The EU could respond to Trump by slashing its own protectionism
The European Union has prepared measures against American products as a possible response to President Donald Trump's decision to impose a 25% tariff on...
The European Commission: A source of misinformation
By Alberto Gómez Hernández, Economist and Policy Manager at the World Vapers' Alliance
"Smoking kills, vaping kills." That’s what EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said in...
ECJ’s Advocate General requests to annul EU Minimum Wage Directive
In a significant legal development, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) recommended last month the annulment of the EU Minimum...
Germany’s election is turning into a referendum on asylum policy
By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink
After an eventful and intense debate in the Bundestag, the ‘Asylwende’ has become the issue...
The EU’s competitiveness strategy is not adequate
By Nicos Rompapas, Director of the Center for Liberal Studies (KEFiM), Greece
Since Mario Draghi’s influential report on European Competitiveness, public discourse has largely converged...
