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Congress Must Shield U.S. Companies From EU Regulations March 28, 2025

The Trump administration’s tariffs and the ensuing debates have diverted attention from the fact that regulating international trade is the role of Congress. After all, tariffs are taxes, and it’s a bedrock principle of U.S. law that taxation require...

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Germany Should Shake Off the Greens and SPD March 19, 2025

From all indications, the proposed fiscal agreement in Germany between the Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens is an inadequate approach to correct the chronic errors of the entire post-Schroeder era, (and only...

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The EU Killed Romania’s Democracy March 15, 2025

Romania has fallen to the status of a 'hybrid regime,' the only one in the European Union, and we have EU politicians and corrupt bureaucrats to thank for it.On March 11th, the Romanian Constitutional Court banned the most popular candidate from runn...

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Mineral Trade Did Not Cause Conflict in the Congo March 14, 2025

The surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has some commentators blaming a familiar scapegoat: mineral trade and American technology companies whose products contain coltan and other “conflict minerals.” Eastern Congo is rich i...

Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

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