The EU’s Regulatory Retreat on ESG Risks Reigniting Financial Instability
The rush to "simplify" sustainability reporting ignores the lessons of 2008 and imperils Europe's financial system.
Romania’s Tiger Economy Is Running Out of Fuel
The EU's fastest-growing economy of the past two decades risks stalling unless it dramatically increases its rock-bottom spending on research and education.
What Jürgen Habermas Misses About American Democracy
Europe's leading public intellectual offers a flawed, Eurocentric reading of US politics that obscures more than it reveals.
America’s New Age of Empire
Joseph E. Stiglitz thinks the rest of the world should plan for the worst and pursue a policy of containment of the US.
Why Social Democrats Must Stop Defending and Start Transforming
The centre-left's defensive crouch has made it look like a guardian of an unfair status quo—radical reformism offers escape.
Appeasing Trump Makes Him More Dangerous by the Day
Europe's leaders, paralysed by fear, are repeating the mistakes of the 1930s—and hastening their own irrelevance.
Can Hungary’s Opposition Finally Break Orbán’s Grip on Power?
After 15 years of Fidesz rule, an unlikely challenger threatens Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary but formidable obstacles remain.
Don’t Mourn, Organise: Europe’s Path Through Global Turbulence
As geopolitical threats mount and the far right advances, Europe must respond with principled strength and genuine industrial renewal.
Strength Without Weight: Ideas For A Post-Bureaucratic State
Geoff Mulgan reimagines the state as a lean, agile force that delivers power without the drag of bureaucracy.
Venezuela And The Decline Of American Democracy
Timothy Snyder sees a familiar connection between US domestic repression and escalating foreign aggression.
Project 2025: From Nightmare To Reality
The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as
Europe Must Re-Build Its Architecture—Now!
The US National Security Strategy confirms what Europeans already suspected: they must forge their own continental framework.
Europe’s Rail Renaissance: Why the Continent Must Finally Bet on Its Own Trains
The EU has the technology, the workers and the demand—now it needs the political will to turn its railway industry into a climate-policy success story.
Looking Into 2026: The Year That Could Be
A decade after Brexit and Donald Trump's first election to the US presidency, states are increasingly isolated from one another. Yet even without cause for optimism, one can – and must – muster hope.
Can the EU Still Escape the Authoritarian Pull of the USA?
Waning US leadership and China's new world order compel Europe to unite or face marginalization.