Brussels Report

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...