New Europe’s cover story on economic freedom

Overall, the EU has an economic freedom score of 7.78 out of 10, which has been stable for the past decade. To put this …

1828 features a debate on Afghanistan with our Director

Afghanistan is a textbook example of the sunk cost fallacy – where throwing additional financial and human resources at the problem will not improve …

Keynesian economics and the Italian Recovery Plan

The Italian government has recently presented the RRP (Recovery and Resilience Plan) to Parliament. On 30 April, it was sent to Brussels for initial …

Diaspora Mainstreaming in EU Development Cooperation with Africa

Diaspora communities hold incalculable potential to support their home countries and have long been acknowledged as actors for development thanks to their unique transnational …

Global inequality at lowest level for 140 years

The world has become a much better place in recent decades when it comes to poverty and prosperity: extreme poverty has been significantly reduced …

Deepening the EU-Japan EPA

The EU and Japan are like-minded: both support a rules-based, open global trade system and share similar values on democracy, freedom of expression and …