European Institutions

  • EU Adopts Rules on Truck Dimensions

    December 17, 2014

    The EU has adopted legislation that will impose costs on truck manufacturing companies by requiring a new vehicle design that EU experts say will increase drivers' visibility.

  • EU Funds Polish "Ghost" Airports

    December 17, 2014

    An article from EurActiv highlights the inefficiency involved in top-down planning by EU officials, as they provided over 100 million euros to fund the building of at least three "ghost" airports in Poland that did not attract enough passengers to keep them in business.

  • Report Finds EU Blow to U.K. Deregulation Campaign

    December 17, 2014

    A report from the think tank Reform finds that over the past three years, new directives from Brussels, including pension and energy requirements, have heavily obstructed the U.K.'s campaign against deregulation.

  • Irish MEP Warns of Economic Effect of EU Tax Plan

    December 10, 2014

    Irish Member of the European Parliament ("MEP") Brian Hayes has warned that a new EU plan to harmonize business tax policy across the bloc would threaten Irish jobs at international firms that benefit from the country's low corporate tax rate.

  • Petition Seeks to Shut Down EU-U.S. Trade Deal

    December 10, 2014

    The European Commission has received a petition, signed by over one million Europeans, calling for a halt to the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact ("TTIP"), a massive proposed trade deal between the U.S. and the EU.

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