Category: Economy

The Five Stages of AI Grief

A chatbot’s detailed care-policy proposals expose how quickly the boundary between human judgement and machine work is eroding.

Europe paid €62 billion extra for fossil fuels in five months, and each new crisis repeats the bill.

A decade of Beneluxa yielded 15 assessments and three reimbursement deals, but no proof of added value.

The Commission’s own impact assessment values EU Inc. at €40 million a year, against risks it ignores.

Customer-support agents with two months’ experience matched six-month veterans once AI arrived, yet capital stands to gain most.

Eighteen states have activated the escape clause; the growth payoff of additional defence spending is small and the bill lands in 2029.

Only 4.9 per cent of Spaniards collect rent, yet multi-property landlords own over half the homes individuals let.

Lenders slice data-centre loans into tranches and sell them on, yet nobody knows who holds them.

The EU’s wellbeing index rose 9.5 points between 2010 and 2023, against 1.2 for the United States.

A Brussels workshop ranked the signals Europe must track, from junior vacancies to the labour share of GDP.

Profits have grown almost twice as fast as pay since 2000, yet workers are told to work longer.

Tariff revenue is bankrolling American tax cuts, and Europe is quietly footing the bill.

Union reps say AI sentiment scores can swing variable pay by up to 40 per cent.

The most precarious group grew from two to 54 per cent of Italy’s platform workforce in three years.

Two union leaders warn that waste, repair and recycling jobs risk becoming Europe’s next low-pay, high-hazard market.

Once NextGenerationEU expires, the EU’s real fiscal capacity falls, leaving a €300 billion annual investment gap.