An ever shrinking number of Member States is shouldering the cost...
By Herman Matthijs (Professor in public finance at the Universities of Ghent and Brussels and a member of Belgium’s High Council of Finance)
Since the...
Mapping the erosion of trust in the ECB
By Gunther Schnabl, Professor of Economic Policy and International Economics at Leipzig University
Last fall, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Largarde,...
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Italy’s finances are now at the mercy of European politics
By Giovanni B. Ponzetto, a financial adviser with 32 years of experience based in Turin, Italy
Italy already was not in a particularly good...
On the erosion of the rule of law in the EU...
The launch this week of Transparency International’s annual corruption index highlights something that EU watchers cannot fail to have missed in the past year:...
How travel restrictions have emerged as the most succesfull tool to...
Back in April, I listed five measures governments can take to prevent the spread of Covid in order to prevent any need for economically devastating...
Italy’s return to statism spells trouble for the eurozone
Originally published by EUObserver
Last week, European leaders clinched a deal ending weeks of deadlock over Hungarian and Polish opposition to "rule of law" conditionality...
Did Brexit lead to the UK’s vaccine success?
Originally published by The Spectator
Today the United Kingdom became the first country in the West to clinically authorise a vaccine protecting against Covid-19, after the...
From Russia to France, politicians discover higher taxes can lead to...
Originally published by The European Post
Last month, an illegal cigarette factory was discovered in Brussels. Not less than 170,760 cigarettes and 11.5 tonnes of...
“Refugee cities” as an alternative to tired old thinking on migration
In her “State of the Union”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU’s long-awaited “new pact” on migration and asylum will be unveiled on...





















