An unfair tax policy de-legitimizes the EU
The ECOFIN has failed to approve the first of the fair taxation directives. The EU should be more assertive against tax evasion.
Future of Europe
The return of industrial policy: more European than Europeanist
Industrial policy is nothing new in Europe but the level of urgency and ambition has increased markedly. It has to be both European and Europeanist.
Europe’s choice: what lies ahead?
The world is changing, and so is Europe. It is clear that in 2019 the race for office in EU institutions will be fiercely contested.
The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement and the revitalisation of the international economic liberal order
The EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement will have significant effects on the bilateral relation and the international liberal economic order.
The nostalgic
European society and politics are now dominated by the nostalgic who think that the past –without specifying which– was better than the present.
Poland in Europe: disappointment or merely hiccup?
The judicial reforms put the Warsaw government on a collision course with the EU institutions over the rule of law. What is Poland’s position in the EU in the context of the political and economic developments under the Law and Justice government?
An EU fund for adapting to the technological revolution
Whether with a new EU fund or by reforming the existing ones, the EU and the member states need to managed the effects of the technological revolution.
Spain’s 20 years in the euro: a beneficial straitjacket
We will never know whether Spain would have functioned without the euro. What we do know is that Spain has fared better than other countries.
Politics is incapable of solving Brexit
Brexit was an essentially political issue, but British politics is incapable of resolving it. Not just the withdrawal agreement, but what will come next.
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