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Those who saw the 2008 crisis comingWhen those in power have only one way of approaching the economy, mistakes are inevitable. The 2008 crisis showed this.
PISA 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.
Revolut becomes a French bank: what this changesRevolut takes another step in its conquest of the European banking market.
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
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.
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.
The Economist
Italians may help Germany get its trains to run on time
German rail dysfunction is another monument to bureaucratic waste that invites foreign help to clean up.
The Brussels Times
€17.4m VAT fraud linked to China imports revealed in Czechia
A cross-border VAT scam shows how bureaucratic loopholes invite fraud and rob taxpayers across Europe.
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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
Analysis
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
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.
European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Europe’s cookie law is really a law about surveillance
Brussels turns privacy rules into bureaucratic theater while surveillance interests keep expanding.
Opinions
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.
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.
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
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.
Reason
All My Loving (Beatles Parody)
Satirist Remy takes inspiration from The Beatles to skewer politicians who promise goodies to voters.
The Beatles
Taxman - The Beatles
The Beatles' classic song against the U.K. taxman.
Economy
The European Conservative
Institute of Economic Affairs
Foundation for Economic Education
Bureaucracy
European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Adam Smith Institute
The European Conservative
Waste & Corruption
Tax
Foundation for Economic Education
Adam Smith Institute
Adam Smith Institute
Free Speech
Mises Institute
The European Conservative
Welfare State
Foundation for Economic Education
The European Conservative
Media
The European Conservative
The Snowdon Substack
Free Thought
Brussels Signal
The Cobden Centre
The European Conservative
European Union
United Kingdom
Adam Smith Institute
Institute of Economic Affairs
Foundation for Economic Education
Italy