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Anti-EU sentiment simmering in Central Europe

  “Czechs and the EU Brand: How do Czechs feel about the EU and what could change their mind?” By Vit Havelka, courtesy of EUROPEUM   This study is mainly based on a series of 12 brief surveys by Behavio research agency and on longitudinal research by STEM...

Franco-German relationship needs a reboot

“Rebooting Franco-German cooperation” By Sophie Pornschlegel, courtesy of EPC The alliance between France and Germany has significantly deteriorated in 2019, with little to no hope for improvement in 2020. They have no one to blame but themselves: Germany...

Don't loosen bank rules for Green New Deal

  “European green finance is expanding, a discount on bank capital would discredit it” By Alexander Lehmann, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute   The Commission’s ‘European Green Deal’ sets out massive investment needs in a variety of areas, amounting to...

Beware AMLO's authoritarian tendencies

“AMLO and the “Fourth Transformation” in Mexico” By Roberto Salinas-León, courtesy of the Cato Institute   According to Enrique Krauze, Mexico’s prominent classical‐​liberal intellectual, new “winds of authoritarianism” are sweeping across Latin America,...