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The New Right is rising as Europe’s liberals retreatThe New Right is rising as Europe’s liberals retreatAs the New Right reshapes Europe’s political agenda, liberal parties are struggling to define what they stand for.
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face, a company founded by French entrepreneurs, for $12.9 billionNvidia acquires Hugging Face, a company founded by French entrepreneurs, for $12.9 billionThe transaction is a new symptom of the European tech ecosystem's weakness
PISA education study shows decline in European performancePISA education study shows decline in European performanceIn 2025, French students achieved their lowest PISA scores in math and reading. This was a steeper decline than in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Opinions
The true cost of bureaucracyBureaucracy destroys human flourishing through regulation, taxation, and waste of talent.
The Declaration of 1789 does not protect rightsDespite being often hailed as a landmark document that protects citizens, the Declaration of 1789 also sets the stage to restrict their rights and empower the State.
The Milka affair: how the State interferes in chocolate packagingA German court’s ruling against Milka over “shrinkflation” shows bureaucrats dictating how companies must present already truthful information to adults who can read a label on their own.
News
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Brussels proposes a 67% increase in EU budget, despite Brexit
Brussels proposes a 67% increase in EU budget, despite Brexit
Brexit was expected to result in budget reduction, but Brussels is proposing an expansion to nearly €2 trillion for 2028-2034. A group of “frugal” member states is pushing back against the proposal.
EU revives Chat Control, despite EU Parliament’s opposition
EU revives Chat Control, despite EU Parliament’s opposition
The EU Council approved a temporary law aimed at countering child pornography, but a larger battle over permanent “Chat Control” remains unresolved.
Revolut becomes a French bank: what this changes
Revolut becomes a French bank: what this changes
Revolut takes another step in its conquest of the European banking market.
EY: Zucman's wealth tax would destroy 2 million jobs worldwide
A wealth tax translates into lower productivity, weaker labor income, and fewer jobs.
Global Peace Index 2026: Switzerland third safest country worldwide, France ranked lowest in the European Union
Yearly report from the Institute for Economics and Peace reveals drastic differences in safety between European neighbors.
Institute of Economic Affairs
Britain spends more on planning applications than Japan spends on extending high-speed railways through earthquake-prone mountains
Britain’s planning-state squanders money and blocks delivery while better systems build faster and cheaper.
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Events
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In-Person
Conservative Conference: The Rally for Liberty
Birmingham
Adam Smith Institute
October 6, 2026
In-Person
The Next Generation with Baroness Fox of Buckley
London
Adam Smith Institute
October 13, 2026
In-Person
Food for Thought with James Turk
London, United Kingdom
Institute of Economic Affairs
October 28, 2026
In-Person
Europe Liberty Forum 2027
Athens, Greece
Atlas Network
February 25, 2027
Classic quotes
EN
“The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called ‘taxation’ and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around.”
Murray Rothbard
“Confiscation and the Homestead Principle,” published in The Libertarian Forum, vol. 1, no. 6, June 15, 1969
EN
“Instead of government of the people, by the people, for the people, we now have a government of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats.”
Milton Friedman
Why government is the problem, 1993
EN
“Peoples who, in order to enjoy the freedom that suits them, resort to the representative system, must exercise active and constant oversight of their representatives.”
Benjamin Constant
De la liberté des anciens comparée à celle des modernes (1819)
Originally in French
EN
“[The law] cannot organize work, education, religion, without disorganizing Justice.”
Frederic Bastiat
La Loi
Originally in French
EN
“There is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program.”
Milton Friedman
Tyranny of the Status Quo, p.115
EN
“Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers pass the direction of production activities into the hands of those who are best fit to serve them.”
Ludwig von Mises
Profit and Loss
EN
“Excessive taxation leads to the subversion of justice, the deterioration of morals, and the destruction of individual liberty.”
Benjamin Constant
Principes de politique applicables à tous les gouvernements représentatifs (1815)
Originally in French
EN
“There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.”
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
EN
“The best of all financial plans is to spend little, and the best of all taxes is the smallest.”
Jean-Baptiste Say
Traité d’économie politique, livre III, chap. IX
Originally in French
EN
“Resolve to serve no more, and you are free.”
Etienne de la Boétie
Discours de la servitude volontaire, p. 6
Originally in French
EN
“Let us pray that the authorities remain within their bounds. Let them confine themselves to being just; we will take care of being happy.”
Benjamin Constant
De la liberté des Anciens comparée à celle des Modernes, p. 29
Originally in French
EN
“The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. It lies coldly, too; and this lie crawls from its mouth: I, the state, am the people.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Also sprach Zarathustra, "Vom neuen Götzen"
Originally in German
EN
“It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
Murray Rothbard
Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8, No. 2 (Summer 1995)
EN
“Every advocate of the welfare state and of planning is a potential dictator.”
Ludwig von Mises
Planned Chaos, p. 27
EN
“The State is the great fiction through which everyone strives to live at everyone else's expense.”
Frederic Bastiat
Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, 3e édition, tome IV, section “L’État”
Originally in French
Cartoons
EU says, EU does
I feel great
Tax them, give me
Blue and red pill
Labour code
Temple of the welfare state
Citizens fights, bureaucrats laugh
Free schools and healthcare
Bureaucrat vs entrepreneur
The right choice
Political opinions
Cancer of state spending
On our backs
Gross and net
work hard make babies
Socialist paradise
Analysis
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Those who saw the 2008 crisis coming
Those who saw the 2008 crisis coming
When those in power have only one way of approaching the economy, mistakes are inevitable. The 2008 crisis showed this.
The EU’s future plans go against freedom: the Letta and Draghi reports
The EU’s future plans go against freedom: the Letta and Draghi reports
EU leaders keep proposing statist measures that will worsen the bloc's economy.
Four economists who promote Statism at the expense of freedom - Part II: Kelton and Mazzucato
Four economists who promote Statism at the expense of freedom - Part II: Kelton and Mazzucato
Kelton and Mazzucato exemplify a tradition of intellectuals who use their influence to validate and celebrate state power.
The “mainstream” doctrine dominates economic education in Europe
In France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, one approach accounts for more than 80% of what is taught to students of economics.
The economics universities don’t teach
Today, only one side of economic science is taught: the side that suits the State. The Austrian school, which is more relevant than ever, is ignored.
Adam Smith Institute
Causes of wealth and poverty
Government distortions, confiscation, and perverse incentives choke wealth and entrench poverty.
Opinions
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FCAS: Three billion swallowed up for a plane that never flew
FCAS: Three billion swallowed up for a plane that never flew
Nine years, €3.2 billion spent, zero flying prototypes: the FCAS is the industrial fiasco that the State knew was inevitable—and funded anyway.
Don’t eat or drink anything
Adam Smith Institute
Don’t eat or drink anything
The media panics over food while government-style health fearmongering wastes attention and fuels needless anxiety.
Brussels’ war on the small entrepreneur
Eutoday
Brussels’ war on the small entrepreneur
Brussels keeps adding red tape, crushing small entrepreneurs in the process.
Adam Smith Institute
The billionaires already gave at the office
The Guardian’s moralizing ignores the wealth billionaires created by actually making life cheaper and better.
The European Conservative
When Iceland said no to Brussels
Iceland refused to reopen negotiations with Brussels to protect its waters and its currency.
Foundation for Economic Education
Europe built a single market—now it’s packaging it away
Brussels is strangling small businesses with red tape, then calling the damage green progress.
Fun
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How to improve your love life with classical liberal principles
How to improve your love life with classical liberal principles
The classical liberal way of thinking can be applied to many areas of human life, including romantic relationships.
All My Loving (Beatles Parody)
Reason
All My Loving (Beatles Parody)
Satirist Remy takes inspiration from The Beatles to skewer politicians who promise goodies to voters.
Taxman - The Beatles
The Beatles
Taxman - The Beatles
The Beatles' classic song against the U.K. taxman.
Economy
The European Conservative
India puts its first private rocket into orbit as Europe still waits for its own
Institute of Economic Affairs
The Great Stagnation: Tax
Foundation for Economic Education
Spain’s poor job market is causing an exodus
Public Finances
Foundation for Economic Education
Inequality is not the problem
Brussels Report
The queen of Brussels
Brussels Report
The Digital Euro reveals the foundations of a surveillance society
Bureaucracy
European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Europe’s cookie law is really a law about surveillance
European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Why the EU age-verification tool does not solve privacy concerns
Adam Smith Institute
What do fixed bottle tops achieve?
Waste & Corruption
Brussels Report
The EU’s relentless quest for more power
City AM
'Social value' procurement rules are an absurd waste of time and money
The Brussels Times
€17.4m VAT fraud linked to China imports revealed in Czechia
Tax
Adam Smith Institute
The importance of opportunity
Adam Smith Institute
The UK's Tax Freedom Day is later than ever
Institut économique Molinari
The average European employee worked until June 12th to finance public services and collective benefits in 2026
Free Speech
Mises Institute
Freedom of speech dying a slow death in Europe
The European Conservative
France targets online anonymity under guise of child protection
Brussels Signal
VPNs are lawful technical tools, says EU court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling
Welfare State
Foundation for Economic Education
The failure of Europe’s single-payer health monopoly
The European Conservative
The feminization of the Icelandic state
Brussels Signal
The EU is spending €1.23 billion to make Europeans less resilient
Media
Reason
U.K. might force social platforms to give government-backed media special status
The European Conservative
The framing problem: how Germany talks about homelessness
The Snowdon Substack
"Public health" is a branch of anti-capitalism
Free Thought
Brussels Signal
Europe should build AI leverage, not an AI wall
The Cobden Centre
Freedom: its value, preconditions, and enemies
The European Conservative
Too Catholic to be French officers
European Union
The European Conservative
SAIC factory in Spain demonstrates von der Leyen’s industrial contradiction
The Economist
Italians may help Germany get its trains to run on time
The Brussels Times
Report reveals €2.1 billion lost to irregularities in EU funds
Germany
The Economist
The Berlin terror attack exposes deep failings in the state
The Economist
Germany's left‑wing Die Linke party has won over the young
The European Conservative
Germany's frightening investment crisis
France
The Cobden Centre
Why the French Revolution was not a libertarian revolution
Reason
France passes social media ban for under-15s, leading Europe's crackdown on internet freedom
United Kingdom
Adam Smith Institute
Nationalisation as a money sink
Institute of Economic Affairs
The Great Stagnation: Infrastructure
Foundation for Economic Education
How Net Zero helped bring down British Steel
Italy
Brussels Signal
Anti-fascist certificate' for publishers ahead of Rome book fair sparks censorship row
Davie504
Saying goodbye to Italy
The Brussels Times
€55m seized over alleged solar-linked fraud in EU funding scheme