Export-oriented Belgium’s unemployment rate rises as EU’s edges lower
Belgium’s unemployment rate rose to 6.5 per cent in June 2025, up from 5.5 per cent the year before.
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Wind-turbine dismantling costs are more than claimed, study reveals
Completely dismantling wind turbines is significantly more expensive than many assume, according to a new Finnish study that cast doubt on the industry’s assumptions…
No legitimacy: Consensual government by the EU is a mere hallucination
Nobody should be remotely surprised that - according to The Financial Times - the EU is looking to raise more money to fund its culture of incompetent improvidence.
France: stagnation or worse
France, once the steady top performer of the eurozone, has fallen behind.
‘Economic liberalism no longer working,’ international officials warn
Japan’s economy minister Minoru Kiuchi has warned that the risks of economic liberalism now rivalled its benefits as a growing number of governments have been…
EU spends more on policing speech than transnational cancer research
The EU has given €650 million to projects combating so-called 'hate speech' and 'disinformation', one third more than it has given to transnational cancer research…
German city of Bonn abandons plan for ‘living-space tax’
The German city of Bonn has abandoned plans for the introduction of a new tax to incentivise people to abandon flats and houses considered “too large” for them.
EU pauses corporate reporting, worldwide companies not yet under Brussels’ thumb
On April 3, the European Parliament ratified a decision to stop the clock on scheduled corporate reporting and compliance requirements – most notably the Corporate…
No more ‘Strong Gods’ in Europe: what men will volunteer to fight now?
Imagine being a frontline Ukrainian soldier on February 28th, having survived another nightmarish day of trench warfare with satellite enabled battlefield transparency,…
Feminism, a triumph of biological illogic over reproductive realities
Those poor, deluded German CDU demonstrators who last week denounced their party – with their winsome SHAME ON YOU placards - for agreeing to AfD demands to cut…
EC President von der Leyen pledges to simplify regulations but holds on to ‘green’ agenda
Termed the Competitiveness Compass, the European Commission has outlined its plans to simplify regulations in a move to boost competitiveness against the US and…
Polish PM Tusk wants to ditch Green Deal to ‘save EU competitiveness’
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose country currently holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union, has given a landmark speech in the European…
EPP wants EU’s ‘bureaucracy burden’ cut to boost competitiveness
The European People’s Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has sounded an alarm regarding what it saw as the European Union’s regulatory…
Are European governments next? Paris joins growing exodus from Musk’s X
The city of Paris has become the latest European municipality to abandon Elon Musk’s social media platform, saying it will close its X account January 20.
Greece: corrupt elites bring a nation to its knees, Brussels beware
The numbers from Eurostat’s 2024 report are indisputable and grim: While politicians spin tales of recovery and progress, the cold, hard data tells a very different…
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EU Socialists demand crackdown on Musk’s ‘manipulation’ of European politics
Europe's Socialist parties are urging the EU to act against Elon Musk's X platform, citing concerns over his alleged manipulation of politics and support for far-right…
EU leads to the Molenbeek Fallacy: luscious benefits but no national pride
The good secular rationalists who founded the European project after the horrors of the Second World War believed that political stability could be restored by meeting…
EU forces 10-year-old USB-C charging point on everything mobile
The European Union’s imposition of the USB-C charging port on all items that make modern life possible, and yes explicitly including handheld mobile phones, portable…
Qatar threatens to ‘cut off gas supplies to the EU’
Qatar’s energy minister Saad al-Kaabi has threatened to cut supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union over its recently implemented Corporate…
Syria, a Petrie dish of rapine and warring baronies
Dystopia was once upon a time a filmic theme park, wherein a director could imagine all sorts of random tyrannies and arbitrary agents of terror.
ECB’s Lagarde sees weak growth, dominated by downside risks
Eurozone economic growth could be weaker in the months ahead and the medium-term outlook is uncertain with downside risks dominating, European Central Bank President…
EU to blame for own decline, senior Eurocrat admits
"It is the normal consequence of decisions that we took, or did not take, in the last thirty years."
How the Greens die: suffering economy and young dump the ‘party of youth’
After another catastrophic result in yet another eastern Bundesstaat, the German Green Party has lost its leaders.
EU’s ‘degrowth’ means rich stay rich, the poor are made even poorer
It is hard to distinguish whether an action is driven by malice or incompetence when the results are the same.
US headed for a recession in 2025, Europe be warned
Professor Steve H. Hanke, one of America’s leading economists, has some crisp words about America's economic future, and Europe had better listen.
The Greens ready for ‘alternative EU majority’ to fight ‘far-right’
"We are determined to prevent the far-right from coming to power in Europe," group Vice-President Marie Toussaint said on May 30.
EU ‘wealth tax’ to finance climate change?
The European Union must impose a wealth tax to finance climate transition - the move to a low-carbon, more resource-efficient and sustainable economy - says Paul…
Heavy regulatory burden weighing on EU productivity: S&P
The European Central Bank has been congratulating itself too soon on a soft landing over the Eurozone inflation crisis, according to US financial analysis major…
JDE Peet’s sees coffee industry struggling to meet EU deforestation law
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Is France turning into an Anthony Burgess dystopia? The dangers of going ‘Zulu’ and embracing the ‘Horns of the Buffalo’
France appears to be embracing the deadly Zulu “Horns of the Buffalo” tactic when it comes to the lifespans of its citizens.