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Why the ECB should not raise interest rates yet?

Finances Philippe Legrain - June 7, 2026.

The European Central Bank appears set to raise interest rates on June 11. Policymakers’ statements suggest this, markets expect it, and the ECB’s economic analysis...

Tariffs cannot restore Europe's export competitiveness

Economy Daniel Gros - June 6, 2026.

China looms large in trade-policy discussions everywhere, but the precise concerns vary. Whereas the United States has long regarded China as a destroyer of American industry...

The limits of Irish neutrality

EU Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - June 5, 2026.

At the beginning of June, the Irish government entered the final phase of reforming the so-called "triple lock" mechanism – the rule that government and...

Who will pay for Europe’s armament?

EU Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - June 4, 2026.

For most of the past three decades, political debates in European countries have focused on increasing social benefits, accelerating the green transition, financing health systems,...

EU Pact perpetuates migration fictions

EU Ferry Biedermann - June 4, 2026.

The European Union’s controversial new Pact on Migration and Asylum is set to come into force mid-June but is unlikely to calm Europe’s ever more...

Why the new returns regulation matters more for politics than migration

EU Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - June 3, 2026.

The new returns regulation introduces, for the first time, a common European system for the removal of migrants and allows for their accommodation outside the...

Europe seeks to end its reliance on American digital services

EU Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - June 1, 2026.

Thirteen European cloud providers, including OVHcloud, Nextcloud and Proton, along with a group of Members of the European Parliament and several civil society organisations, endorsed...

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