MEGA · Make Europe Great Again
MEGA stands for Make Europe Great Again. On this page: the campaign collection, the European events programme and forty sourced analyses of how European politics actually works. Reporting is labelled and sourced; it endorses no party.
Make Europe Great Again collection
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22 October 2026
Reader evening · Brussels, Belgium
12 November 2026
Briefing · Stockholm, Sweden
3 December 2026
Panel · Berlin, Germany
The forty analyses
Analysis · European Policy
The Commission proposes laws, enforces EU rules and manages programmes. It does not legislate alone—and its claim to political independence has defined limits.
· 6 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · European Policy
Europe’s directly elected chamber shares lawmaking and budget power, scrutinises the executive and turns national party competition into European coalitions.
· 6 min read · MEGA EU Editorial Desk
Analysis · European Policy
The European Council sets political direction without passing ordinary EU laws—a distinction central to understanding where Brussels power begins and ends.
· 6 min read · MEGA EU Editorial Desk
Analysis · European Policy
The Brussels think tank covers nearly every major EU policy field while locating judgement with individual researchers rather than the institution.
· 6 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · European Policy
Bruegel’s non-doctrinal economic research informs debates over competitiveness, trade, energy and public finance without carrying democratic authority of its own.
· 6 min read · MEGA EU Editorial Desk
Analysis · European Policy
The pan-European think tank openly seeks coalitions for change in foreign policy. Its work is influential analysis, not an official voice of the EU.
· 6 min read · MEGA EU Editorial Desk
Analysis · European Policy
Academic research and concrete policy design meet in an institution named for one of European integration’s defining political figures.
· 6 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · European Policy
The Martens Centre openly identifies as the European People’s Party’s official think tank and a catalyst for centre-right ideas.
· 6 min read · MEGA EU Editorial Desk
Analysis · European Policy
FEPS is explicit about its role: it serves Europe’s progressive political family and develops ideas for socialist and social-democratic policy.
· 6 min read · MEGA EU Editorial Desk
