Overregulated to Death

The ship “Euro” is steaming full speed toward the iceberg that has long been visible. Looking at the emaciated EU economy, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls for a push to restore competitiveness. What never crosses her mind is that it is precisely the ecosocialist agenda of her own administration that now threatens the very economic survival of the Union. Every narrative needs its hero. In the fairy tale of a prosperous and expanding European Union, Mario Draghi -- once president of the European Central Bank and later unelected, technocratic prime minister of Italy -- was mythologized by the...