Pieter Cleppe is the editor in chief of BrusselsReport.EU, a website covering European Union politics. He also is a nonresident fellow of the Property Rights Alliance. Viktor Orbán’s government is not ...

09:02, Sun, Dec 31, 2023 Updated: 09:16, Mon, Jan 1, 2024 Surging support for Eurosceptic parties in Belgium, partly driven by resentment at accelerating federalism, has the potential to be highly ...

France’s soaring debt is putting off potential investors who now put it in the same bracket as Greece, a Brussels insider has said. With Prime Minister Michel Barnier facing a no-confidence vote later ...

The UK has been spared the brunt of Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with the European Union thanks to the "Brexit dividend" of having its own independent trade policy, a senior Brussels-based ...

The European Union’s green strategy is simultaneously failing its own targets and harming the bloc’s economy and, a Brussels-based expert has warned. Pieter Cleppe, Editor-in-chief of ...

Ursula von der Leyen is by no means guaranteed a second term as EU chief, a Brussels insider has said - because the European Parliament could still shoot down her candidacy. Meanwhile, one MEP has ...

08:25, Fri, Nov 15, 2024 Updated: 08:33, Fri, Nov 15, 2024 Britain is well placed to reap the benefits of Brexit in the wake of Donald Trump’s US Presidential election triumph - especially if the EU ...

Mr Kurz’s political power base has been strengthened by his party party’s impressive showing in Austria’s snap election at the weekend - and he will be ready to take an ever tougher stand against ...

And Pieter Cleppe warned such an approach would undoubtedly impact consumers throughout the continent. France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union on January 1. Mr Cleppe told ...

Pieter Cleppe said while legitimate businesses throughout the continent were frequently hampered by bureaucracy, criminal gangs were offering quick and easy alternatives. Crooks had been smuggling ...