With its latest budget, the EU Commission shows off its creeping super-state agenda. If this budget is passed, only a full-fledged tax system remains to complete the project.
Economic theory promised that free trade would bring new levels of prosperity to Europe. That did not happen. The continent needs a Trump-style rethinking of its economic future.
Rising defense spending will cause fiscal fights in many NATO countries. In Spain, the tension between social benefits and military outlays is perhaps more pointed than anywhere else.
