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Industrial chimney illustrating Carbon Emissions

Who Gets a Say in Finalizing the European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism?

With the European Union’s publication of its Communication on The European Green Deal in December of 2019, a proposal for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) was promised. The declared intention was to ‘level the economic playing field’ globally and adjust the price of carbon emissions on imported goods to match the EU carbon price. This way ‘carbon leakage’, the relocation of production processes to countries with more lenient greenhouse gas emission…

The World Has Lost Its Compass

Feelings reigned over the recent European elections which consolidated the new political era of sovereigntism.

On eclipsed ends: Ideals and ambitions in the search for Europa

People rarely talk about the overall objectives of the ‘European Project.’ Much of Europe’s political class acts as if it’s a non-issue.

A statesman without a state

How Jean-Claude Juncker surprised everybody during his State of the European Union address.

Ryanair and easyJet planes at Bristol Airport

Aviation after Brexit: Feathers fly, planes stay grounded

Airlines might start cancelling flights as early as six months before the end of Brexit negotiation period if no deal is reached.

Theresa May and the art of political forgetting: A special way to use and abuse history

Politicians are forever legitimising their actions by co-opting history to their side, often quite cynically so.

Theresa May taking part in the Remain campaign

Article 50 and the dictatorship of the “democratic” majority

British voters wishing to remain in the Union or to leave only on consensual terms are deprived of any effective Parliamentary representation whatsoever.

Use it or lose it: At 60, the EU needs to work on its flexibility

Greater elasticity at the cost of cohesion. Can such an architectural change of the Union help to save the European project?

Pim Fortuyn’s legacy in Dutch politics today

How did a politician like Geert Wilders gain so much influence in a liberal country like the Netherlands? How much power will he really have after the election?

Whose interest? Towards the emergence of a European constituency

Decisions at the EU level are often taken on the basis of national interests, which recent crises have proved to be inadequate and against the overall interest of European citizens.