
A year of interest rate increases
Leonardas Marcinkevičius // 12 September 2023
It has been a year since the first-in-a-decade increase of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) key interest rates.
Throughout the history of the Eurozone, …
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Leonardas Marcinkevičius // 12 September 2023
It has been a year since the first-in-a-decade increase of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) key interest rates.
Throughout the history of the Eurozone, …
Henrik Mogensen Nielsen // 16 March 2023
The EU is in an existential debt crisis. This crisis is often overlooked, and if it is not brought under control, it may lead …
Kristian Niemietz // 14 September 2022
Imagine you buy 10 cans of beer every week, at a price of €2.50 each.
Due to a shortage of hops, the price of …
27 January 2022 // Alexander Hammond & Chris Snowdon
YES – says Alexander Hammond
It is unlikely that most people will be rampant classical liberals by 2030. Still, for the remainder of …
Ashley Tan // 26 February 2021
In December 2020, negotiations were concluded for the highly anticipated EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). Economically, the objectives and achievements of the CAI …
Mark Littlewood & Juan A. Soto // 25 February 2021
Europe is a continent of small and medium-sized nations, and many citizens in these nations wish to form even smaller ones. Should free-market liberals …
Nikolai G. Wenzel // 19 June 2020
We almost pity American federal and state elected officials for having to deal with the situation caused by COVID-19. Overnight, social media users have …
Cécile Philippe // 17 June 2020
Excessively high taxes on production, exceedingly slow authorizations for market launch, and an overbearing bureaucracy. France is ensuring that innovation, especially regarding pharmaceuticals, happens …
Tanja Porčnik and Miguel Cervantes // 11 March 2020
Oman started 2020 off on the right foot when it comes to economic freedom. Only a few days before Sultan Qaboos passed away on …
Diego Zúniga Aguilera // 21 October 2019
The European Union’s budget for foreign aid for the 2014-2020 period is of €82 billion on. As part of a new humanitarian aid package, …
Dr Radomir Tylecote & Felix Hathaway // 16 July 2019
There has been a great deal of cheering over the recent free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur (the South American trade bloc …
Daniel Abreu Costa & Sorana Gheorghiade // 8 July 2019
In the recent European elections, authoritarian populist parties, gained a great number of seats (almost 24% of the total) in the European Parliament (EP). …
Frits Bolkestein // 22 October 2018
The author is the former European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services.
With the Commission and Parliament both starting their last legislative year, one …
24 May 2018 // Jamie Fraser
Jamie Whyte at the First Economic Freedom Summit, addressing liberalising reforms in New Zealand
The transformation of New Zealand’s economic policy from 1972 …
Giovanni Caccavello // 26 February 2018
Every euro of new debt today is a euro that is going to be paid by Italians through higher taxation, tomorrow. Until 4 March …
Lithuanian Free Market Institute // 31 August 2017
The European Commission sought public opinion on the importance of equipping young people with shared values and on how education and non-formal learning can …
Giovanni Caccavello & Caroline Burleigh // 27 April 2017
As the debate on the modernisation and simplification of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) gathers pace, European policymakers are called – once again …
Luis Pablo de la Horra // 17 January 2017
Despite Bernie Sanders’ efforts to identify Denmark with some sort of democratic socialist utopia where a highly-interventionist government regulates all the nooks and crannies …
Diego Zuluaga, Head of Research at EPICENTER // 20.12.2016
As the festive season approaches, it’s time for economists’ annual disquisition on the efficiency of gift-giving. This tradition was inaugurated, more than twenty years …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 16.12.2016
On December 12th, Member States’ Representatives voted to formally adopt the latest European Commission proposal to end roaming charges in the EU by June …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 08.12.2016
On December 5th, Paul Magnette, the current Minister-President of the French-speaking region of Wallonia, Belgium, unveiled his so-called “Namur Declaration”, a 3-page-long statement whose …
Paolo Belardinelli, Instituto Bruno Leoni // 07.12.2016
It has been one year and a half since Professor Nicola Rossi and I started the Superindex at Istituto Bruno Leoni.
The Superindex …
Luca Minola, Insituto Bruno Leoni // 07.12.2016
The long-standing saga of the European Union’s battle against Google recently saw the addition of a new chapter. A few days ago an open …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 06.12.2016
On Sunday night, following a shock negative result in a referendum on the constitutional reform he had championed, Matteo Renzi, Italy’s Prime Minister, announced …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 01.12.2016
Since the 1992 MacSharry reform, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has undergone substantial changes. However, despite a noticeable move towards less market- and trade- …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 21.11.2016
In a previous post, entitled “The changing narrative of the Euro crisis”, Diego Zuluaga argued that, while Eurozone reform was justified, European policymakers “should …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 17.11.2016
On September 17th, more than 100,000 people took to the streets of several German cities to protest against both the Transatlantic Trade and Investment …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 11.11.2016
Since the adoption of the 1990 Directive 90/220/EEC the EU has “de facto” imposed a moratorium on cultivating GM crops.
As the European …
Giovanni Caccavello, Research Fellow at EPICENTER // 10.11.2016
Since the 1992 “MacSharry” Reform, which – among other things – scaled down price support to farmers and replaced it with direct payments, the …
Ryan Bourne, Head of Public Policy at the IEA // 01.11.2016
Repeat after me: tariffs primarily hurt domestic consumers – not foreign exporters
Tariffs primarily hurt the consumers of the country imposing them on …