The Brussels Emperor's telling award for failure
It is entirely fitting that EU Commission President Barroso is now the recipient of a prize invoking one of the greatest European centralizers of all time, Emperor Charles V
- 18 January 2014
First bankrupt EU welfare state to find recovery formula?
There aren't many fiscal policy role models in Europe. Portugal can hardly claim to be one - but it may be moving in the right direction
- 20 December 2012
When will the Arab-Israel conflict come to an end?
Both Israel and the Arab world need peace. We must accept each other. Peace needs fair-minded people like me and my Israeli conference friend. Can you join us? Please, do.
- 12 October 2012
The Brussels Diary: We're All Citizens of Europe Edition
Did you know that you can't be a British citizen without being a European, too? That and more...
- 30 June 2012
Barking Barroso blames America
So long as people like Jose Manuel Barroso are at the helm, Europe's crisis is only going to get worse
- 19 June 2012
Instant view: Eurozone on verge of renewed crisis as Spain debt yields soar towards unsustainable levels
Greece, Ireland and Portugal all needed bailouts after debt yields crossed the 7 percent barrier
- 14 June 2012
Stop worrying about Greece leaving the euro. It won’t happen
What are we all worrying about? Greece won't leave the Euro - Jean-Claude Juncker says so.
- 22 May 2012
Austerity is under attack
If even moderate attempts to slow the increase in debt prove electorally unpalatable then western voters will be faced not with the bumpy landing of austerity but with the fatal crash of economic collapse
- 8 May 2012
Is France inadvertently voting for the euro's break up?
Italy and Spain are already pushing the euro to the limit. With France voting to join them, the odds on the euro’s break up just shortened
- 23 April 2012
Life is (almost) glorious on the margins of EU integration, whatever the BBC says
There is much talk of Britain being isolated as talks on the Eurozone crisis continue. But who wants to be at the centre of project doomed to failure?
- 2 December 2011
The EU is an economic train crash we're watching in slow motion
It's virtually impossible to get robust economic performance with a bloated public sector and populations that have been infantilized by government dependency, says Cato's Dan Mitchell
- 26 November 2011
Dangerous dominoes: what lies beyond a Greek tragedy
Everyone is talking about Greece but ignoring that elephant in the room – Italy. How much is actually at stake as the Eurozone fiddles while its countries burn?
- 4 November 2011
Euro plan: rejoice a deal, but no salvation.
Rejoice; a deal has been made; markets are calmed. But, unfortunately, the Eurozone agreement has added layers of bureaucracy, removed democracy and failed to answer the fundamental issue of the Euro itself.
- 28 October 2011
It’s time the Government talked frankly
The public are owed a fair debate; ultimately it would be in the interests of both the state and society to reform our drug laws.
- 14 October 2011
Without exposing the Guilty Men in the Eurozone debate, we won’t learn for the future
Far from being xenophobic and mad, as they were derided at the time, many Conservatives including Hague, Iain Duncan Smith, and John Redwood, showed ‘remarkable prescience and moral courage in fighting for our monetary sovereignty.’
- 23 September 2011
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