In defense of tax competition within the EU
Earlier this month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for a global minimum corporate tax rate. The proposal was quickly backed by Germany and...
The “European Green Deal”: another fateful attempt at central planning
By Fabian Wintersberger, Rates Trader and Economist, based in Austria
Today, the European Parliament and EU governments closed a deal on how far to go...
Does the Conference on the Future of Europe present EU citizens...
By Pelle Christy Geertsen (EU expert, analyst, commentator, and lobbyist)
Yesterday, there was yet another press conference and a whole lot of communication on...
Sofagate should serve as a warning not to trust the EU...
by Robert Tyler (political strategist, working for a European political party)
”Sofagate”, in which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was deprived a chair...
Spain’s spending of EU recovery funds threatens to turn into a...
By Daniel Rodríguez Asensio, a Spanish economist and strategy consultant, who’s the founder and President of think tank Acción Liberal.
The game for European...
During Germany’s “super election year”, the EU looks like an afterthought
By Pieter de Jonge, a Dutch historian and publicist
2021 has been dubbed “Superwahljahr”, or “super election year”, in Germany: elections are being held in...
Is the mafia about to get a massive financial injection from...
In an interview with EUObserver, Italian criminal law Professor Vincenzo Musacchio makes a remarkable statement on what has happened to the billions of euros...
A conference without a purpose
By Pelle Christy Geertsen (EU expert, analyst, commentator, and lobbyist)
The work on the “Conference on the Future of Europe” (CoFoE) is finally underway. At...
“Sofagate” is yet more evidence of the EU’s foreign policy weakness
“Sofagate” is what has focused minds in the “Brussels bubble” this week, with many expressing indignation over how during a meeting in Ankara between...
The case against the EU vaccine passport
By Bill Wirtz (freelance journalist from Luxembourg and Senior Policy Analyst at the Consumer Choice Center)
In Brussels, the European Commission and Member States have...
