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
Judith Kirton-Darling and Isabelle Barthès
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
Trump has followed the Heritage Foundation’s 920-page blueprint almost to the letter, and its real enemy is internationalist socialism.
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.
The EU’s Largest Investment Programme Holds Lessons We Cannot Afford to Ignore
The Next Generation EU programme, despite sluggish implementation and limited coverage, reveals how industrial policy can drive green transition—if governments act.
Europe’s Foreign Policy Is Broken by Design—Here’s How to Fix It
Kaja Kallas is not the problem; the EU’s dysfunctional institutional architecture is crippling its global influence.
Germany’s Middle-Technology Trap: Industrial Policy Blindness and the Path Out
Germany’s faith in free markets has left it squeezed between China and America — but a defence-spending loophole offers unexpected hope.
Industrial Policy 2.0: The Service Sector Path to Shared Prosperity
We must address climate change, inequality, and poverty simultaneously, but prevailing economic approaches are failing; solutions lie in an updated, experimental industrial policy focused on green and productive service job
Chile’s Democracy Faces Its Gravest Test Since Pinochet
Eduardo Engel and Benjamín García
A far-right candidate threatens to dismantle decades of democratic progress in Latin America’s most celebrated success story.
Why European Universities Must Not Follow America’s
The American model has produced rentier capitalism and functional illiteracy—Europe’s universities must return to their civilising mission.