🇪🇺📝 On Thursday, 31 July, we're launching the EU Regulatory Observatory! 📅✅ Be sure to mark your calendars for 12:30 CEST for the premiere of our conversation with Anna Stürgkh 🇺🇦 MEP, Christian Nasulea, and Constantinos Saravakos. Click the link below to add the premiere to your calendar 👇

💣 EU public debt is quietly spiralling out of control. 📈 Our new briefing shows that nearly half of EU countries now exceed the Maastricht debt ceiling. 🧮 Fiscal rules are routinely ignored or suspended, fuelling long-term risk. 🧵 Here’s a thread on our new paper: 1/6

The Online Safety Act is a disastrous piece of legislation with entirely predictable consequences. Former Tory tech secretary Michelle Donelan, who pushed it through, should be ashamed and take responsibility. Instead, she’s blaming Ofcom and Labour. Shameless.

These live scenes from London could also be an ad against the uniparty.

While Russian missiles rain death on Kyiv, Hungary bans a brave ethnic Hungarian who dares to fight for Ukraine's freedom. Commander Magyar: if you need some R&R and Hungary won't let you in, please be our guest in Poland.

🇪🇺 The Brussels Effect is real, but is it actually positive when others copy EU rules? 🇿🇦 Join us and Free Market Foundation tomorrow for the launch of the report 'The Brussels Effect in South African Public Policy'. 📅 02/09 ⏰ 11:00 CEST 👇 Link below youtube.com/watch?v=z6mdpv…

🔴 LIVE at 11:00 on 2 September 2025 South Africa is importing EU-style rules like POPIA and the AI Policy Framework, but at what cost? Join Adam Bartha (EPICENTER - European Policy Information Center), Martin van Staden & Dr Morné Malan (FMF), with facilitator Zakhele Mthembu (FMF), as they launch 'The Brussels

🇪🇺 The Brussels effect is real, but is it actually positive when others copy EU rules? 🇿🇦 Join us and Free Market Foundation tomorrow for the launch of the report 'The Brussels Effect in South African Public Policy'. 🗓️ 02/09 ⏰ 11:00 CEST 👇 Link below

The ex-foreign minister of Lithuania summarising European foreign policy very well.

🇪🇺 Today's finalisation of the EU-Mercosur deal is a big step in the right direction, as outlined in our paper Trade in a Time of Tariffs in February. 🤔 But why did it take over 20 years to finish? And what more can the EU do to navigate the world's evolving trade landscape? 👇

🇪🇺 What would you like to see announced during Ursula von der Leyen's State of the European Union address? ✅ Join Adam Bartha, CEPOS' Line Andersen, and IME's Petar Ganev after the speech to discuss whether Europe is on the right track to regain its economic competitiveness.

Hard to hate the Russian regime more, but as I’m sitting on a massively delayed flight that is meant to fly over Poland, I do want to murder Putin more and more with every passing minute.

🇪🇺 All eyes were on Strasbourg this week, where Ursula von der Leyen delivered her State of the European Union address. ✅ Watch our new episode of Conversations in the EPICENTER of the EU, where we assessed the good & the bad of the speech. Link below 👇

Hungary was in recession last year. Hungary is in recession this year. The last place to look for inspiration when it comes to economic growth & competitiveness is Hungary.

❌️📜 A tide of nanny statism is sweeping across Europe, curbing personal freedoms and failing to improve public health. 🎞 Watch the trailer for our next Conversations in the Epicenter of the EU episode, out this Friday!

🤔📜 Which working programme would contribute more to the EU’s economic competitiveness? The leaked programme of the upcoming Cypriot Council Presidency, or the European Commission’s version? 🧵👇 1/4

Europe must stop this insanity: I found out today, in a UK official government report, that the value of a salmon's life is literally infinite! EDF spent £700m -- 700 hundred million pounds!-- on a Fish Recovery and Return system and Acoustic Fish Deterrents to build its

Putin Meets With Witkoff and Kushner for Nearly Five Hours and the two sides did not reach any specific compromises, an aide to President Vladimir V. Putin said, as the United States pushes a plan to end the war in Ukraine. Let me translate for you what this means. There was