February 3, 2026
This paper examines persistent shortcomings in the European Union’s Better Regulation Framework and argues that formal procedural compliance has not translated into high-quality regulatory outcomes.
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November 6, 2025
The European Commission’s Digital Omnibus, part of its competitiveness and simplification agenda, streamlines overlapping rules on data, cybersecurity, and AI but does not reduce their overall burden.
September 30, 2025
The European Commission’s new Action Plan for Affordable Energy is a mix of contradictory policies could result in higher costs, greater market uncertainty, and slower progress toward a genuine energy union.
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.
July 31, 2025
The European Commission’s SME Relief Package is a response to the growing challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the EU, including excessive red tape, regulatory fragmentation, and weak cross-border scalability.
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.
July 16, 2025
High tobacco taxes are often seen as a public health tool, but excessive duties are now driving the growth of Europe’s black market.
April 17, 2025
EU policymakers have noted that growing the region’s economy while maintaining its bureaucratic red tape is like trying to run a marathon in iron shoes.
March 11, 2025
As the Digital Markets Act (DMA) enters its implementation phase, the European Commission is investigating whether the proposed solutions of dominant tech firms (gatekeepers) comply with the mandates of the DMA.