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The stark disparity between the relatively low government revenue derived from corporate taxes and the substantial contributions from labour and consumption taxes in Germany underscores the need for...

Brussels is mired in debates that miss the mark. While the EU and Member States tinker with regulatory details and symbolic gestures, Europe’s economy suffocates under unchecked bureaucracy and a...

As Europe now ponders the next four years with Donald Trump in the White House, the dominant thought seems to be that he's yet again got his eyes on Europe. Last week, both Emmanuel Macron and Mario...

Fredrik Erixon interviewed Tengiz Pkhaladze, a Senior Fellow at ECIPE, about the recent developments in Moldova and Georgia, two countries on the path to the EU membership, where important elections...

President Trump’s return to the White House means that trade policy will return to prominence. For one thing we know for certain is that he believes the US has done badly economically from the rest...

It was an event that looked like a thought. Rishi Sunak called this summer's British election the Fourth of July: America's Independence Day, the date when the thirteen American colonies broke away...

It must be the most remarkable comeback ever in democratic political history, but Donald Trump has won the Presidential election and will in January next year return to the White House. The whole...

In 1917, in the aftermath of the sinking of U.S. merchant ships, President Woodrow Wilson told Congress in his request for a declaration of war on Germany that “the world must be safe for democracy...

With Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen agreeing regular future summits and joint working by officials to prepare them, the first stage of the UK-EU reset is completed successfully. Despite...

My thesis in this essay is that we now live in an era of anti-economics. Just like antimatter is the opposite of ordinary matter, the Western public policy discourse now seems permeated by...