Europe is lagging behind the US, but this won’t fix it.

Was the EU a mistake?

EU bureaucrats in Brussels have rammed through a so-called Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which is euro-speak for a new protectionist tax on imports that are not sufficiently green.

This is remarkable.

Most of its 21 recommendations endorse and embrace new and expanded entitlement.

This windfall for lobbyists will advance cronyism.

This is a hand grenade into cross-border commerce.

International bureaucracies push misguided policy on their bad days and waste money on their good days.

There’s a long-held desire by the left to turn the E.U. into a transfer union.

Have we seen the final straw on the camel’s back?