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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blog post | 14-10-2020 | Ewout Irrgang
Blog post | 06-04-2020 | Ewout Irrgang
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 ...
Blog post | 30-09-2019 | Ewout Irrgang