Tag: Europe

Rise of the Right: Western Europe’s Left in decline, amidst a make-believe fascist obsession.

Excess mortality is negatively related to elderly vaccination in both Europe and the U.S. Focussed protection culminating in voluntary vaccination of high-risk groups was the right strategy, argues Noah Carl.

Increases in mortality during Covid were small relative to pre-existing differences across Europe. Even in 2020, when Swedes supposedly faced “disaster”, they actually had a higher life expectancy than Danes and Finns.

OECD countries will spend 18% of GDP on energy this year, compared to only 10% last year. That’s 8 percentage points of GDP that we could have spent on infrastructure or tax-cuts. The energy crisis isn't over.

Experts have warned that Europe faces a “cancer epidemic” after an estimated 1 million diagnoses were missed during the pandemic due to lockdowns and other restrictions.

According to the Financial Times, weather forecasters are predicting that Europe will get a cold winter with relatively low wind and rainfall. This does not bode well for the continent's energy crisis.

Liz Truss claims to be a free marketeer. But a new report by the Bruegel thinktank shows that Britain has spent more on the energy bailout than every EU country – both in absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP.

Sanctions are crushing Europe's economy. Either mainstream parties will roll them back, or they’ll get voted out and populist parties will tear them up. Whatever happens, sanctions could break the Western alliance.

The EU has set out plans to raise £101bn via a windfall tax on renewable energy suppliers and bring in a "demand reduction" law to address the growing crisis.

Europeans must hold their noses and open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, argues Philip Pilkington. Doing so would give Russia an enormous political victory, but the alternative is the collapse of Europe's economy.