Will Trust in the EU’s Digital Identity Wallet Deepen European Integration?
Europe’s new digital identity wallet could let EU citizens carry their licence, health card, and credentials all on a single app, if they trust it enough to actually use it.
Gotta Digitalize’em All: The EU’s League of E-Government
Brussels has built the rulebook for digital government, but not every member state is playing by the same rules.
Is There Really a Need for an EU Directive on Global Minimum Corporate Tax?
While many believe that implementing the OECD’s Global Minimum Tax through an EU Directive is a good way to combat tax avoidance, evidence suggests it unduly strips EU Member States of their own tax sovereignty.
EU Chat Control Could Spell an End to Private Messaging
The EU has long seen itself as the world’s gold standard for digital privacy. Chat Control is a reckoning for that claim.
Heat Is Quietly Redrawing Europe’s Housing Map
Two record-breaking heatwaves this summer have exposed a housing market that has been quietly pricing in heat risk for years. The EU policy meant to track that shift still works from a map drawn years ago.
Is the Commission Finally Tightening the Leash on Schengen Border Controls?
The Commission’s new opinions acknowledge breaches across nine member states but stop short of declaring their border controls disproportionate or unlawful, leaving Schengen’s core promise unresolved.
Is HYDEF, the EU’s Hypersonic Interception Programme, Still Making Progress?
Russia perpetrated yet another heavy attack targeting Kyiv on May 24th, firing some 600 drones and 90 missiles including hypersonic Kinzhal and Zircon missiles. As EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said, “Russia hit a dead end on the battlefield, so it terrorizes Ukraine with deliberate strikes on city centres.” A tactic made easier by Ukraine’s lack of air defence systems that can reliably intercept hypersonic missiles – Europe has the same problem. Could the EU’s Hypersonic Defence Interceptor Programme (HYDEF) help to solve this challenge?
The EU Keeps Insisting It’s Not a State. It Keeps Building One Anyway
From a coal and steel pact to an €800 billion defence plan, seven decades of crisis management have quietly assembled something Europe refuses to name.
Draghi’s Report and the EU Response: Year to Date
A first year of EU early-stage response.
From Farmers to Brussels: How Dutch Domestic Protests Shaped EU Environmental Politics
How resistance to nitrogen regulations quickly turned into a larger challenge to EU environmental goals, demonstrating the power of domestic unrest in influencing larger policies.
Towards Simplification: Evaluating the EU’s Efforts to Streamline Tech Regulation
The EU is trying to simplify tech laws to support innovation—but risks weakening key protections.
Debunking the Myth of Net Contributors and Net Beneficiaries in the EU
Why merely looking at direct financial transactions creates a misleading picture of how EU funds are distributed across Member States
