
Why Solar Grids, Not American LNG, Should Power Europe Next
Jeffrey Sommers, Daniel Pop and Cosmin Marian
A southern-solar, north-south grid offers Europe an escape from both Russian gas and overpriced American LNG.
Analysis and debate on European and national politics, democracy, the rule of law, parties and elections, and Europe’s place in the world.

Jeffrey Sommers, Daniel Pop and Cosmin Marian
A southern-solar, north-south grid offers Europe an escape from both Russian gas and overpriced American LNG.

Judith Kirton-Darling and Isabelle Barthès
The Commission’s optional “EU company” lets firms register anywhere and sidestep the national rules that protect workers.

A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.

A referendum on a 1945-style solidarity tax on fortunes above €100 million would give France’s left the clarity it lacks.

After 16 years of illiberal rule, Péter Magyar must rebuild Hungarian democracy without breaking its own constitutional rules.

Europe’s industrial transition risks becoming a social tsunami; only binding labour guarantees, not soft coordination, can prevent it.

The help and the harm are a single event, and at the level of institutions, AI is already draining the judgement on which good government depends.

An IPO engineered for rapid index inclusion turns ordinary pension savers into involuntary financiers of Elon Musk’s fantasies.

As central banks squeeze households, corporations protect their margins — and the European social model pays the price.

Central banks are again poised to raise rates against an oil-shock inflation — and again the costs will dwarf the effects.

Adaptation schemes built for the informed and well-off keep failing those most exposed to climate shocks.

Labour bleeds four voters to the left for every one it loses to Reform — and cannot explain why.

His reflexive defence of Israel contradicts the universal principles his life’s work was built to uphold.

A single code word — “Omnibus” — now drives the most sweeping rewrite of European law in the Union’s history.

Jan Willem Goudriaan, Simon Vinge and Christina Colclough
Europe spends €2 trillion a year buying goods and services; treating that money as mere book-keeping squanders a decisive democratic lever.

Renewables have won the cost argument, yet poorer nations still pay a steep premium to deploy them.