European Union politicians are outraged over comments made by the U.S ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell. In an interview with Breitbart News, Grenell praised the rise of conservative parties in Europe and said he wants to “empower” leaders of the right. European politicians were quick to react, claiming that the ambassador was illegitimately meddling in local […]
How exactly is cultural protectionism not nationalism?
The European Union wants to implement a framework that would incentivize the production of movies and music inside the EU at the expense of American creations. For a political project that wants itself to be an alternative to the nation-state mentality, this is surely a nationalistic suggestion.
The EU Commission’s survey on the future of Europe is big-government confirmation bias
When EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker tweeted out a survey on the future of Europe on May 9 (Europe Day), my expectation was that I would be able express my opinion. Where else would I let representatives know my feelings about free markets, decentralisation and limited government? I soon discovered that my views weren’t really […]
Environmentalists are sounding the alarm: you’re flying too much
In Europe, air travel has been a blissful example of how the free market can lower transport costs for consumers. But now, it is coming under fire from environmentalists.
[REPORTAGE] Wat ass d’Zukunft vun Europa?
Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg realiséiert, an ass den 23. Mee ausgestraalt ginn. De Beitrag kann och am Replay op http://www.rtl.lu nogelauschtert ginn. [Radio USO]: Enn Mäerz d’nächst Joer wäert Groussbritannien d’Europäesch Union verloossen. Fir sech op d’Zukunft vun der EU nom Brexit ze preparéieren, invitéiert d’Europäescht Parlament Staats- a Regierungschefen zu Bréissel an zu […]
An illustration of Europe’s anti-smoking obsession
The European Union does everything it can to reduce the number of smokers in its member states. What appears to be a laudable goal, has turned into a fact-free obsession in recent years. In fact, member states and EU regulations have made the market less transparent for the consumer, and have made harm-reducing products less […]
King George III would have agreed with today’s gun control advocates
The only “common sense gun control” that its advocates are eventually going to agree on is to take your guns away. And you won’t get them back. How do I know that? That’s exactly what they did in Europe.
Emmanuel Macron is crowning himself King of Europe
“You as a political project are in denial.” Those words are now part of the EU lexicon thanks to Nigel Farage’s speech in the European Parliament following the Brexit referendum. Farage’s point: despite Brexit, the European Union was unwilling to concede that its process of centralization had gone too far.
420 is now less of a celebration in Europe than it is in the United States
For years, progress on the question of legal medicinal and recreational marijuana has sparked debate in the United States. For a long time, American legalization activists used positive cases, such as the one of the Netherlands, to argue for leniency on drug-related crimes. Today, the situation seems to be reversed.
European political parties need to draw red lines. Viktor Orbán is showing why.
For years, a political class offended at everything and begging for apologies on minor scandals has seemingly been fine with benefiting from the membership of parties with very questionable views. A recent speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán makes it clear that European political parties need to screen their memberships and stop the opportunism.