The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing This pearl of wisdom came from Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s famed Minister of...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Oscar Guinea, a senior economist at ECIPE. On the back of their new study Standing Up for Competition: Market Concentration, Regulation, and Europe’s Quest for a New...

Earlier this month MEPs voted to support the final text on the free flow of non-personal data across the European Union (EU). A vast majority of the European Parliament voted in favour of this new...

So where do matters stand with the UK-EU negotiations for an orderly separation or withdrawal agreement? Three major events – the Lancaster House speech in January, followed by the Article 50...

This note is written on the basis that exit from the EU entails some automatic loss of privileges, which can then be renegotiated with trade partners, either rapidly or in some cases over time. But...

There is a confusing debate going on about how to interpret last week’s European elections. A fairly considerable body of opinion suggests that the rise of the populists, extremists and protest...

A couple of days before Brussels shut down for winter holidays, I was reached by an email that my op-ed on internet taxation in France and Italy is one of the most popular articles on European...