
Decline or Decision?
If the EU is losing weight on the world stage, it is not because democracy is obsolete or values outdated; it is because ambition has outpaced ability.

If the EU is losing weight on the world stage, it is not because democracy is obsolete or values outdated; it is because ambition has outpaced ability.

The Madrid Declaration denounces von der Leyen’s economic policies and calls for new leadership to defend producers and families.

The role of small and medium-size enterprises becomes the crux of the conflict between a centralized model and the demands for economic freedom.

The question is whether Trump’s threat of 50% tariffs will wake up the Eurocrats running a protectionist system whose price is paid by the public.

The cooperation between politicians and scientists easily undermines science and promotes the pretence of knowledge.

Critics cry fowl at unhinged government priorities.

Analysts have warned that the directive, aimed at reducing the gender pay gap, may backfire.

British bureaucracy has added more workers in the past seven years than the entire regular British Army.

Two former heads of Germany’s foreign intelligence wing BND warn that the agency was facing bureaucratic collapse.

The directive is likely to come into effect before next year’s EU elections and facilitate decoupling from regimes such as China on human rights grounds.