The subsidiary principle is a well-established notion in Catholic social teaching. It was also intended to be a core principle … Continue reading “Subsidiarity needs to take its rightful place at the EU”

One of the most harmful misunderstandings in current economic debates is that the job of competition authorities is to protect … Continue reading “Rohan Silva’s anxiety about Amazon is unwarranted”

One of the main objectives of post-crisis financial regulation has been the severing of the nexus between large banks and … Continue reading “The bank-sovereign nexus is alive and well”

In many ways, Spain is the EU’s poster child. The country’s determination to be part of the European project was … Continue reading “A statist agenda would destroy all the gains Spain has made since joining the EU”

The European Commission has released its plan for an EU-wide deposit insurance scheme that will, at first, back up and … Continue reading “The Eurozone’s deposit insurance scheme creates more problems than it solves”

Prime Minister David Cameron announced that fast broadband access – at speeds of at least 10 megabytes per second – will … Continue reading “Do we really want to make the broadband sector more like the postal service?”

Britons are all too aware of the problems of political and economic centralisation. Indeed, the trend for more and more … Continue reading “A federal Britain will make us richer and help communities thrive”

From the moment it set foot in Europe, Uber – the ride-sharing app that connects private drivers with passengers – … Continue reading “The next Mayor must save London from Uber-regulation”

If healthcare in the 20th century was characterised by the successful eradication and containment of communicable diseases – from TB … Continue reading “On drug approval – better safe and sorry?”