European Union

November 4, 2017

Book Review: “Brexit la Sfida”

Many of you, including me,  are often talking about Brexit and we ask ourselves, ‘What is Brexit and why did it happen?’. Will it lead to more or less liberty for the […]
October 9, 2017

Turkey deserves credit for its refugee policy

According to my observations, Turkish politics has recently become a hot topic in the European media. It is surely both possible and necessary to criticize the Turkish government and President Erdoğan for […]
October 5, 2017

An EU Army Won’t Make Europe Safe

Growing distrust between Europe and the US government has led European governments to renew their commitment to building an autonomous and common defense policy. The idea of building a European military is […]
October 1, 2017

Martin Schulz is the first victim of Brexit

On September 24, Germans headed to the polls to elect a new parliament. Despite Angela Merkel’s Christian-Democrat CDU/CSU losing massively in support, she remains in a position of forming a government in […]
July 26, 2017

Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: European Union Calls for More Regulations

The Parliament of the European Union is calling for longer lifetimes for products, once again meaning more regulations to defend the well-being of European consumers. At least that’s what they say. While […]
July 16, 2017

If the EU Burdens Biomass, the Environment Loses

As the European Union’s 2020 climate and energy targets fast approach, energy providers are attempting to innovate to provide sufficient energy at reasonable cost. The UK’s Drax Power Station has recently received […]
July 9, 2017

The Death of the European Banking Union

In early June, the failure of the Spanish bank Banco Popular seemed to work smoothly under the new European resolution rules. The relatively new Banking Union seemed to work in achieving its […]
July 3, 2017

By Fining Tech Companies, EU Bureaucrats are Working Against Us

David Friedman, following the steps of his dad Milton, wrote two chapters exclusively dedicated to monopoly in his “The machinery of freedom” of 1973. In those chapters he classifies monopolies according to […]
June 29, 2017

A Parliament without Priorities: How Britain Forgot about Brexit

Last Friday, the 23rd of June 2017, marked the one-year anniversary of the pivotal Brexit referendum. While some have dubbed it our ‘Independence Day’, to me it represents a year of broken […]
June 27, 2017

Judges Don’t Use Uber

“Uber is a transportation company”, says senior advisor to the European Court of Justice Maciej Szpunar. If the ECJ were actually to adopt the same attitude as the Polish legal advisor, then […]
June 17, 2017

Britain Should Embrace Unilateral Free Trade Right Now

If we read the newspapers or listen to the experts, Britain faces two ways to negotiate its way out of the European Union without succumbing to the protectionists’ sirens. The first is […]
May 16, 2017

Brexit: Punishing British Firms Will Also Harm European Consumers

The will of the British people to leave the European Union (EU) has unfortunately exposed them to commercial sanctions. Of course, because of political correctness, no one in Brussels claims to want […]
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