“Tackling the Modern Divisions of Europe through Education” By Márk Szabó, courtesy of Europeum Europe’s history is marked by wars and divisions. The former are, thankfully, fewer and farther between since the inception of the European Union, but other divides are still creating walls and trenches between the peoples of Europe. These new […]
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Big players will be sorry they let WTO lapse
“WTO at 25: What has It Ever Done for Us? Welfare Effects of the WTO” Courtesy of IFW Kiel January 1, 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the World Trade Organization. Whether it is looking forward to a rosy future is however uncertain. Their largest members, the US and China […]
Whither the EU? (Wither the EU?)
“What Next, EU?” By Dr. Rudolf Pozgay, courtesy of the Austrian Economics Center 1.Introduction The amount of economic and social challenges that the European Union has faced to date have given rise to the idea that EU reform is required. An example of such efforts is Juncker’s “White book” with five possible […]
Advancing Free Markets in Populist Times
By Iain Murray and Johan Norberg “National conservatism” is the flavor of the month, it seems. Recent European elections have seen parties that espouse big government and nationalism gain ground in both Poland and Germany – and the Polish government has duly announced a bigger role for the state in the economy. In the […]
Without reform the EU will self-destruct
“How to Destroy the European Union” By Prince Michael of Liechtenstein, courtesy of ECAEF and GIS Once, the “European idea” helped unite a war-weary continent. Now, overbearing central authorities, suffocating bureaucracies and reams of red tape are limiting the freedom that idea once promised. Europeans are losing trust in their […]
Macron is neither liberal nor a reformer (but he IS French)
Those who are fond of Voltaire’s famous quip about the Holy Roman Empire should take pleasure in the evisceration of Emmanuel Macron by CapX’s Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, who argues that the French liberal reformer is in fact none of these things — well, except that […]
GAME OF UNKNOWNS: The Future of Brexit
By CTMN TES Contributor @torqueative In mere weeks, we will begin to get a sense of how a great political drama, that has captivated Britain and much of the world for so long with its shocks, twists and double-crosses, finally comes to an end. An embattled woman holed up in the Capital, […]