Central planning through the backdoor
If you thought central planning was buried with the fall of communism, you should look at the European Union. [...]
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Taxonomic vandalism, EU-style
When the EU embarked on developing its own taxonomy, maybe it should have consulted with a few biologists. That may have prevented it from creating a monster. [...]
Cynically exploiting EU’s divisions
After simmering for many months, the Belarusian-organised refugee crisis is heating up in the Eastern European cold. [...]
The next Euro crisis has just begun
Just as Europe’s economies are emerging from the Covid-19 recession, the next big European crisis is already visible on the horizon. It is just not clear what kind of crisis it will be: another debt crisis, an inflation crisis, or a combination of both. [...]
It’s not all about the money
Last week, following six years of intense negotiations, the Swiss government pulled out of the talks on a new treaty. It preferred Switzerland’s sovereignty over the gains of deeper integration into the EU. [...]
Economic rationality long gone in Europe
The times of economic reason and rationality are long gone in Europe. [...]
Will Europe’s recovery be worse than the recession?
The picture emerging for Europe is worrying. Maybe a big wave of insolvencies will wash over the continent right when the public might have believed that the pandemic recession is over. [...]
When time stood still
If Europe cannot even tackle the relatively straightforward question of whether to have DST – and if it rather hopes that such issues would go away by ignoring them, it does not bode well for the EU as an institution. [...]
Learn from the European ETS experience
Whether to cut emissions is a moral question. How to achieve this cut should be an economic one. The price of getting this distinction wrong is high. [...]
EU vaccines disaster shreds Commission’s credibility
The EU's vaccination procurement has been an unmitigated disaster. But will anyone take responsibility? [...]