Don’t Count Uncle Sam Out
By Belgian MEP Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgian Finance Minister between 2014 and 2018, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Budget Committee). He is the author of...
The Digital Euro Risks Undermining Europe’s Payment Ecosystem
By Dutch MEP Auke Zijlstra
Today, the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee approved the digital euro.
The European Parliament had a unique opportunity to...
Is lawfare threatening transatlantic ties?
For a long time, left-leaning NGOs have been using the courts to advance their causes. In particular when it comes to migration and environmental...
The Memorandum of Misunderstanding
By former Dutch MP and MEP Derk Jan Eppink
The US and Iran are engaged in a ‘peace process’ that resembles a game of cat and...
EU fails to Find Common Ground on Tobacco Taxation
The revision of the directive on tobacco taxation (TED) saw mixed progress this month. The Committee of Economic Affairs of the European Parliament approved...
The Case for Abolishing the EU Emissions Trading System
By Professor Em. Samuel Furfari. Between 1982 and 2018, he was a senior official at the Energy Directorate-General of the European Commission, where he...
Why the EU Migration Pact Won’t Stop Europe’s Asylum Crisis
By Arnout Jaspers, a Dutch physicist and science journalist
Tomorrow, the EU Migration Pact enters into force – the new asylum and migration system which,...
Ten Years After Brexit: Will Europe’s Oldest Democracies Become Dependents of...
By Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, former President of the EFTA Court (2003-2017), Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Baudenbacher Law AG
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The EU’s NGO Lobby Machine Under Scrutiny
On 13 May, a right-wing majority in the European Parliament decided to extend by another six months a scrutiny committee investigating NGOs that receive...
The ETS: Climate Policy at Any Cost?
By Alessandro Petryshyn, policy analyst at the Warsaw Enterprise Institute
On 2 June 2026, the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety organised...
