With Russia still in Ukraine in 2025, the E.U. faced pressure to enact more laws and regulations at the federal, yes, federal level to reap ...

The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch, has been known for being a technocratic institution. Yet in drafting regulations, imp...

Could it be that at least some of the British voters who were in favor of secession from the E.U. held misconceptions of the federal budg...

On January 1, 2012, a new version of the common economic area between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan came into effect. The three countries ...

Even though the European financial sector integrated significantly during the first decade of the twenty-first century, the E.U. Government...

An amendment to the E.U.’s basic law came into effect in 2010 concerning how the president of the European Commission is selected. The proc...

In late July 2013, the Obama administration decided that it was not legally required to determine whether the Egyptian military had led a...

Should the E.U. be able to regulate sales of a product that can legally be sold only in one state? Would such regulations encroach too mu...

With regard to genetically-modified (GM) foodstuffs, an interesting cultural difference between Americans and Europeans surfaces. Even th...

In 1960, Switzerland was one of the two founders of the European Free Trade Association . All of the countries participating in that free-t...

In May 2013, German Chancellor Angela Merkel interjected herself into the brewing trade conflict between the E.U. and China. At issue was t...

The E.U.’s internal market is not typically construed in terms of federalism. Whereas the market connotes homogeneity or at least easy tr...

He was supposed to have been reluctantly pushed into briefly stepping in as prime minister in Italy to push austerity measures through th...

In 2012, women made up 13.7% of board positions in large listed companies in the E.U., and 15% for nonexecutive board positions, acc...

In October 2012, the Daily Online reported, “Brussels officials are threatening to hit Britain with millions of pounds in fines in retal...

In the modern world of organizations and the members who inhabit them, it perhaps makes sense that the Nobel peace prize would go to a gove...

One of the chief benefits of federalism is the ability of one system of government to check another within the overall federal system. In t...

The government of the E.U. state of Greece announced on September 11, 2011 that its cabinet had decided to impose a new property tax to cov...

Günther Oettinger, the energy commissioner at the E.U. Commission (the E.U.’s executive branch), said at a news conference on September 7,...

Concerning the European Council and the Council of the E.U., it can reasonably be asked whether such similar nomenclature is really necess...