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.

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

This windfall for lobbyists will advance cronyism.

Reasons for being a pessimist about the European Union.

Why did anti-red ink rules produce more red ink?

We’re now seeing divergence.

This is a hand grenade into cross-border commerce.

What’s the link between EU membership and economic liberty?

Let’s try and set the pandemic aside and focus on policy for a moment.

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