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Bandow: Greek Crisis Exposes EU Failings
August 06, 2015
Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute writes that the Greek financial crisis and subsequent additional bailout of the country may result in the unraveling of the "European Project," as Europeans realize that EU centralization comes at the expense of their popular sovereignty.
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Pierini: EU Must Have More Counter-terrorism Tools
August 05, 2015
Marc Pierini of Carnegie Europe argues that the most effective way to fight terrorism in Europe is to give the EU the means to adopt and implement counter-terrorism policies that combat new methods of attacks by Islamist extremists.
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Paper: German Minister Seeks Brussels Power Shift
July 31, 2015
Citing anonymous Brussels diplomats, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reported that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble wishes to take some powers from the European Commission, such as competition and internal market oversight, and hand them to independent authorities.
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ECB Expresses Concern at Eurozone Divergence
July 30, 2015
In an economic bulletin, the European Central Bank ("ECB") stated that it was "disappointed" with the diverging status of the national economies in the eurozone, a development that defies the expectations of the architects of the euro project.
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Scott: Supremacy of EU Law Is Threat to British Sovereignty
July 29, 2015
Barrister Matthew Scott writes that the supremacy of EU law is a greater threat to British sovereignty than the influence of the European Court of Human Rights, as UK courts are finding ways to expand their powers under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights at the expense of the country's Parliament.
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