March 25, 2026
This paper argues that the case for large-scale EU-funded transport projects is often overstated, with persistent cost overruns, delays, and questionable economic returns undermining their value to taxpayers.
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March 4, 2026
This paper examines an often-overlooked dimension of tax policy: legal certainty. While European tax debates typically focus on rates, bases, and revenue levels, this study argues that the predictability and consistency of tax enforcement play an equally decisive role in shaping economic incentives.
December 4, 2025
Bulgaria is ending 2025, just before its planned entry into the euro area, in a new round of political and fiscal turmoil.
November 14, 2025
Denmark has taken over the EU presidency, and it is fitting that the government is keen to achieve results.
September 30, 2025
A year after the release of the Draghi Report, little progress has been made in implementing the reforms that were mapped as urgent. The current political rhetoric of the Commission calling for Europe to wake up and calling for urgency in implementing reforms, is inconsistent with the pace of action.
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.
July 28, 2025
EU public debt has steadily increased since the introduction of the euro, with almost half of member states now breaching the Maastricht Treaty’s 60 per cent debt-to-GDP limit.
July 21, 2025
At the end of 2024, French general government debt stood at 113% of the country’s GDP, or approximately €50,000 per capita. Since 1969, the debt-to-GDP ratio has increased eightfold.