
Fixing Economic Growth in Europe: The Politics of Permission
The next growth story will belong to places that excel at the basics: abundant energy, flexible work, simple and stable rules, openness to trade and investment.

The next growth story will belong to places that excel at the basics: abundant energy, flexible work, simple and stable rules, openness to trade and investment.

The issue is not technical but political: will Europe choose to innovate and defend freedom, or entrench itself in bureaucracy that suffocates both?

Discriminatory dairy? Smuggling illicit jars of an Algerian chocolate spread into France has become an act of resistance against the ‘unjust’ and ‘unholy’ white men’s laws.

The Commission president “will go down in history as the gravedigger of the Common Agricultural Policy—practically the only thing still common in Europe,” Spanish farm union president Pedro Barato said.

Amid disastrous green diktats and crippling cuts to farmers’ livelihoods, the out-of-touch elites in Brussels seem to have forgotten where their food comes from.
Investors looking to support defense projects in Europe are turned away by the staggering amount of bureaucracy compared to other projects elsewhere in the world.

“We have had cases where people have committed suicide after an inspection,” author says.

Trump targeting allies doesn’t excuse the EU’s imposing new tariffs that taxpayers will have to bear, rather than addressing European protectionism.

Instead of correcting failing energy policies, the EU insists on more subsidies and compensation mechanisms.

Reducing paperwork while maintaining climate targets won’t address the challenges faced by Europe’s farmers and industries.