Blog
November 10, 2025
France has a habit of playing with fire when it comes to taxation, and the backlash is usually delayed. For decades, the use of production taxation, which duplicates traditional taxation, has undermined French competitiveness.
October 1, 2025
Observers of energy policy often assume that national success must be explained by some favoured technology.
September 10, 2025
A paradoxical situation has developed in the European Union. The population is ageing, the economy is stagnating, and at the same time huge amounts of people's savings are lying unused in banks.
September 3, 2025
The tax war between the US and the EU appears to be over. It was triggered by the EU’s minimum tax on, among other things, foreign subsidiaries whose parent companies do not pay at least 15% tax on their accounting profits.
August 27, 2025
Sweden is the only country in the EU where snus, a tobacco pouch placed between the upper lip and the gums, is permitted for sale. At the same time, it has the lowest smoking rate in the EU, nearing 5%.
August 20, 2025
Even before President Trump took office, the global balance of power and the international political order were shifting, resulting in greater instability, uncertainty, and insecurity.
August 13, 2025
Sharing over a 600-kilometre-long border with Ukraine, Romania is at the heart of Europe’s evolving geopolitical tensions.
August 8, 2025
After the collapse of the USSR, some countries experienced the best of times: economic freedom, low inflation, high growth, democratic institutions, and closer ties with the West. Others fell into the worst of times: runaway inflation, economic collapse, relapse into authoritarian regimes, and continued dependence on Moscow.
July 30, 2025
The unintended, but so far most relevant, consequence of Trumpian protectionism has been to make us realise that protectionism does not suit us.
