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Back in Brussels

Blog post | 07-12-2022 | Ewout Irrgang

It’s a dark, cold, grey morning when we arrive in Brussels. The daunting offices of the European Commission loom over us like a ...

Preconceptions about the use of EU money

Blog post | 01-11-2022 | Ewout Irrgang

Our first associations with the EU are rarely positive. Airports where planes will never land. Motorways from nowhere to nothing. ...

Golden taps

Blog post | 29-06-2022 | Ewout Irrgang

We are standing in the bathroom of Romania’s former dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu. All that glistens is gold. Literally. Even the ...

Money looking for purpose

Blog post | 07-12-2021 | Ewout Irrgang

On 26 October 2021 the European Court of Auditors (ECA) published its annual report on the implementation of the EU budget for ...

Baobab trees and lessons from the oil industry

Blog post | 05-07-2021 | Ewout Irrgang

Baobab trees are the most beautiful trees on earth. They are enormous. So big that they dwarf the other trees around them. They ...

European banking union shuts the doors to audit offices

Blog post | 16-12-2020 | Ewout Irrgang

The 2008 banking crisis triggered a huge effort in Europe to prevent a situation from recurring in which banks would need to be ...

Why don't we know how much added value the EU generates?

Blog post | 14-10-2020 | Ewout Irrgang

The ESM and the importance of independent audits

Blog post | 06-04-2020 | Ewout Irrgang

There’s a new wind blowing in Sudan

Blog post | 21-01-2020 | Ewout Irrgang

I was sitting on a plane, flying over the Mediterranean, when I overheard one of the stewardesses say to a colleague, “OK, so ...

Back in the Metropol and other encounters

Blog post | 30-09-2019 | Ewout Irrgang