“The EU’s new 2040 climate target is unachievable”
Vincent Bénard, town and country planning engineer and economist, former president of the Brussels-based Hayek Institute, is the author of “The EU Climate Law:...
Are Europe and Canada fighting authoritarianism by embracing It?
By Roald Schoenmakers
Canada and Europe have rediscovered their moral compass. They are going to work with China to stop Trump's authoritarianism. Seriously. One would...
Western tech supremacy requires openness, not restrictions
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Dario Amodei, the ceo of leading US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, strongly criticized the US decision to...
The Digital Euro: A coin with two sides
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee) and Dieter Van Esbroeck, economics...
The EU can’t change Trump – But it can change itself
Right after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen finally signed the landmark free trade agreement with Latin American trading bloc Mercosur, US President...
Trump’s ‘flexible realism’ is strategic, honest and overdue
By Ryan Grillo
The muscular foreign policy of President Trump is not about glory for glory’s sake. It is a clear expression of America First.
Trump’s...
The EU’s “energy transition” is accelerating the exodus of major industrial...
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), between...
No Safe Bets
How Europe Can Survive in an Age of Unreliable Partners
By Joshua Livestro, a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs
"The United...
The EU needs deregulation, not simplification
By Martin Vlachynský, Analyst at the Institute of Economic and Social Studies in Slovakia, 4liberty.eu
It started with curved bananas, continued with cookie banners and lightbulb bans,...
A look ahead at the EU in 2026
2025 was not an uneventful year for Europe. While the war in Ukraine raged on, Donald Trump put the European Union under considerable pressure,...
