Creating an EU ethics culture

Transparency and accountability are vital pillars of democratic governance. However, the series of scandals that rocked the European Union over the last few years …

Greedflation?

The last three years have brought many old ghosts to Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic was the biggest health crisis since the Spanish flu, wars …

Trapped by Taxation: How Inheritance Tax Impedes Economic Mobility

Equality of opportunity is a key foundational principle of liberalism. The most widely accepted definition of equality of opportunity among liberals is the absence …

Ticking Time Bomb: The Impending Collapse of the Pension System

Charles Ponzi became famous in the 1920s for running a $20 million fraud, whereby clients would be promised succulent profit margins from a risk-free …

Overlooked benefits of the current EU institutional set-up

In my opinion, we often overlook the benefits of the current EU. It is based on constitutional frameworks that, to a very large extent, …

How to solve a problem like inflation

After three decades of relative price stability, inflation has returned with a vengeance to the world’s advanced economies. The trend began in early 2021, …