
Finland Wakes Up With a Fiscal Hangover
Pressured by the EU on excessive budget deficits, Helsinki needs to rethink the very purpose of its government.

Pressured by the EU on excessive budget deficits, Helsinki needs to rethink the very purpose of its government.

Half of all EU states are below 1% GDP growth with no improvement in sight.

Almost 40 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we see the first big crack in the ‘democratic’ version of socialism, giving conservatives a historic opportunity to make Europe great again.

Any conservative system of welfare should focus on continuity and cultural transmission, and be conceived primarily as a reward for responsibility.

Cracks are widening in Merz’s coalition as Social Democrats push for more immigration while the CSU calls for increased deportations.

Here are three ideas that could put Europe’s largest economy back on track again.

No system limits political power more effectively than the free market. Policymakers in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, and London know this—which is why its defenders are systematically ridiculed.

The leak of an alleged plan by the opposition to raise taxes drastically sharpens the contrast between two choices in the April elections.

New data shows Austria’s labor market sinking deeper into crisis, with pressure growing on the welfare state.

In a pattern eerily similar to other EU states, the Belgian government stands and falls with its own inability to balance its finances. The price will be paid by taxpayers.