The ESM has now become dispensable
by Frank Schäffler, a Member of the German Parliament for the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He has served in this role from 2005 until...
EU Member States should resist Von der Leyen’s protectionist vaccine export ban
fIn something resembling an escalation, European Commission President von der Leyen yesterday threatened to block vaccine exports, unless the EU ‘gets its fair share’....
Five ways in which the EU mismanaged vaccine policy
The EU failed to secure vaccines as quickly as the U.K., the U.S. and Israel
Whatever the reason, not as many Covid vaccines...
An ever shrinking number of Member States is shouldering the cost of EU spending
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 and its neighbourhood
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 avoid lockdowns
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...
