The Cato Institute’s Marian L. Tupy explains to Americans that The EU’s claims about prosperity and stability are at odds with reality. The EU started as a free trade area and a customs union. Over time, it has become a supranational entity that resembles a federal state and is governed by a byzantine bureaucracy in […]
Austrian Supreme Court Gives Freedom Party Another Chance
Norbert Hofer, nominee of the Austrian Freedom Party for president, will get a second chance after being beaten by the Green Party backed independent candidate, Alexander Van der Bellen in a 50.3% to 49.7% election result in May. The Supreme Court found irregularities in 77,926 of the votes cast. Van der Bellen won the race […]
The Sclerotic Welfare State
Having voted to Leave the EU—with its high taxes, heavy regulation and protectionism—will Britain, asks Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute, use its new freedom to ditch the sclerotic welfare state? Britain … has a new opportunity to look at spending and the overall size of government. It is worth noting that government spending as […]
Boris Johnson Not Seeking to Become Prime Minister
From the WSJ: The race for the leadership of the Conservative Party, and therefore the role of prime minister, took a sharp and unexpected turn Thursday, as former London Mayor Boris Johnson said he wouldn’t run. The move came after Justice Secretary Michael Gove—who with Mr. Johnson led the successful campaign for Britain to exit […]
Well-Educated Elites Scrambling in Shock
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer, after the U.K. EU exit vote, cracks open the misery of the globalist elites. The West’s arrogant elites regard Western citizens as obedient fools on whom they can experiment with any kind of pseudo-intellectual nonsense. For decades they have forced the acceptance of multiculturalism, the fundamentalist religions […]
“Damn the People”
There is a petition on the British government’s website that demands a second referendum on Brexit. In just two days, 3.3 million British citizens have signed on, which will require Parliament to have a second debate on Leave or Remain this summer. This is ludicrous, John Fund explains in NRO: It demands that the government […]
Costs of EU Membership Outweigh Benefits
The Cato Institute’s Marian L. Tupy offers unique and compelling perspective on the European Union: I started my career as a believer in the European integration process. Central Europe, where I was born, was impoverished by communism, and membership of the EU seemed like a solution to many economic and political problems in ex-communist countries. […]
The Poo-Bahs’ Campaign of Fear
The economic stagnation in Europe today is not entirely the fault of the EU bureaucracy, writes Francis Menton in Manhattan Contrarian. Each member state is responsible for its own overspending and overregulation. The EU bureaucracy, however, has been growing unchecked to the determent of future growth, dynamism and human freedom. What businesses and industries are […]
Powerful Repudiation Against U.K. Elites
The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher comments on the U.K.’s vote to exit the EU: The Leave campaign has won. The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. Good. I had generally hoped that the Leave side would win. This, simply because a Leave victory would be a strong repudiation of the elites, and in particular […]
What’s Next for the U.K.?
The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison brings readers the shocking implications of the U.K.’s vote to exit the EU. The vote itself does not automatically trigger British exit from the EU, and it will be up to the government to carry out what the electorate has endorsed. Much will depend on how punitive or magnanimous EU […]
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