Sam Vaknin
Climate Change May be an Opportunity
The typically sanctimonious French President, Macron, says that no country should have to choose between “reducing poverty and…
EU Should Not Reverse Brexit
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) Lord Michael Heseltine, a Conservative (Tory) stalwart, called, on the seventh anniversary of the…
EU Again Postponing the Inevitable: Western Balkans Memberships
Equally impoverished and badly governed countries – Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta, to mention but a few –…
Europe Needs to Militarize
Russia is capable of ramping up the production of materiel and of raising an army of millions on…
Germany and Russia Both Suppress Freedom of Political Speech
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) From the very inception of the war in Ukraine, I have been a vocal…
The Merits of Inflation in Europe (Part 3)
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) To tame inflationary pressures in the long run, Europe should focus on remedying structural…
The Merits of Inflation in Europe (Part 2)
Still, the absolute level of inflation may be less important than its volatility. Inflation targeting - the latest…
The Merits of Inflation in Europe (Part 1)
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) Headline inflation fell from 7% in April to an annually adjusted 6.1% in May,…
Europe’s Refugees and Immigrants Fatigue
Europe is focusing its efforts, such as they are, on defensive “security”. There is no real, coordinated, strategic…
Digital Euro: Europe’s Next Folly
The European Commission embraced the idea with great enthusiasm and in an atypical display of alacrity it vowed…
Meta vs. EU: Battle of the Gaslighters
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has just overruled a decision by the Irish Data…
Russia’s Tanking Economy: Sanctions Begin to Bite?
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) A mere four months into 2023, Russia’s entire forecast annual budget deficit is used…
European Banking Union in Crisis: Why EDIS is a Bad Idea
As far as banking goes, the European Union is a heterogenous area with weaker, more vulnerable financial systems…
The Future of OSCE: Six Pillars
Osmani himself is uniquely qualified to do exactly that: he is a member of the Albanian minority in…
The Second Iron Curtain
The long-suffering denizens of the USSR and its East European satellites loathed the moribund system they inhabited and…