A conflict of interest is the privileging of the interest of a part, by that part, over a conflicting broader interest, such as the public g...

Both the U.S. and E.U. mandate that their respective states be republics (i.e., representative democracies), and thus assuming an autocratic...

From August 29 through September 1, 2026, the G20 met in North Carolina in the U.S.; the E.U. was represented by one of its states, Ireland,...

On 5 August, 2026, President Von der Leyen of the E.U. “announced that €1.4 billion in profits from immobilised Russian assets [held in the ...

The European Civil Protection Pool (ECPP) was established in 2013 to provide emergency response personnel and equipment to combat natural an...

Should the European Union pay prospective, or “candidate,” states to undergo legislative, rule-of-law reforms prior to accession even though...

Even as the E.U. struggled to come up with foreign policies on Gaza, Ukraine, and Iran in March, 2026, the union must have been cogent enoug...

The European Union’s governmental institutions are not limited to the European Council and the Council of Ministers, both of which represent...

In an opinion submitted to the European Court of Justice, which tends to follow the legal opinions the 11 Advocates General, Tamara Capeta r...

The governor of a large state, if speaking for the E.U., risks not only undercutting federal officials who can speak for the E.U., but also ...

In late 2025, the E.U. Commission presented its first European Affordable Housing Plan. The E.U.’s involvement in “social housing,” which tr...

After 25 years negotiating with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, the E.U.’s Commission sought to secure passage of the massive trad...

As if having elected representatives and political parties in the European Parliament were not enough evidence that the E.U. has been a poli...

Speaking after his meeting with U.S. President Trump in Alaska during the summer of 2025, Russia’s President Putin said that if no agreement...

To leverage the combined power, or united front, that is possible in Europe, the European Union was established in the waning years of the t...

At the Munich Security Conference in February, 2025, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy bluntly asserted, “I really believe that the time has com...

On October 3, 2024, The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch, filed a legal complaint against the E.U. state of Hungary with the...

The European Union can be distinguished fundamentally from the previous European Economic Community in several ways, just as the Articles of...

At the federal level of the E.U., the European Council, like the Senate in the U.S., represents the states, whereas the European Parliament,...

Whereas just one presidency applies to the U.S. at the federal level, the E.U. has several. There is a president of the European Commission,...