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Could Ukraine’s Reparations Loan End The EU’s Paralysing Foreign Policy Veto?

Guillaume Duval

A €140 billion loan secured against frozen Russian assets may force Europe to abandon unanimity voting—and finally give the EU real geopolitical power.

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The Sun Sets on the Transatlantic Dream

Joschka Fischer

As Trump weakens Western alliances and democracy erodes at home, Europeans confront a painful truth: yesterday's world is gone.

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Finland’s Right-Wing Coalition Plans Fifty Years of Austerity Through National Debt Brake

Otto Kyyrönen

Finland's government wants public debt below 40 percent of GDP, forcing decades of cuts stricter than EU rules.

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Restoring Public-Sector Capacity Where It Counts

Mariana Mazzucato and Rainer Kattel

Cities face crises first. Investing in capable, adaptive local governments is essential for resilience, inclusion, and democracy.

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How to Get European Territories Future-Ready

Roland Benedikter

The EU must abandon insularity and embrace global partnerships in futures governance to secure its place in a rapidly changing world.

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How to Control the Increase of Income Inequality Due to New Technologies?

Branko Milanovic

New technologies drive inequality by concentrating capital income. Three policy approaches can help spread ownership and moderate disparities.

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Investing in Our Children’s Future Starts with Supporting the Workers Who Care for Them

Daniel Molinuevo and Michele Consolini

Despite EU commitments to equality, children at risk of poverty remain severely underrepresented in early childhood education programs.

Donald Trump — author portrait, Social Europe.

Trump Puts America Up for Sale: Everything Now Comes With a Price Tag

Katharina Pistor

From $100,000 work visas to million-dollar “gold cards,” Trump turns government services into transactions for the highest bidder.

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Europe’s Digital Future Demands Public Ownership And Worker Control

Jan Willem Goudriaan and Diego Naranjo

European AI strategy must prioritise democratic governance over market solutions to protect citizens' data and workers' rights.

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Europe Needs Active Demand Management, Not Business As Usual

Judith Kirton-Darling and Isabelle Barthès

As tariff wars and industrial crises mount, Europe must abandon austerity for investment-driven internal demand.

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Europe’s Wealth Gap Threatens Social Cohesion As Housing Crisis Deepens

Carlos Vacas-Soriano

Extreme wealth concentration across the EU undermines opportunity and security for millions while property ownership becomes increasingly unattainable.

Donald Trump — author portrait, Social Europe.

Trump’s Show of Force

Timothy Snyder

State governors are emerging as democracy's last defenders against federal overreach and military deployments.

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The Lethal Consensus: How Liberals Lost the War of Ideas

Dominic Afscharian

Bold visions defeat timid reforms—yet liberals insist on bringing policy briefs to an ideological gunfight.

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What Can AI In Colombian Classrooms Teach Europe About Democratic Innovation?

Deny Giovanno

When rural schools experiment with artificial intelligence, they reveal whether technology serves the many or the few.

Vladimir Putin — author portrait, Social Europe.

Why Putin Does Not Want Peace in Ukraine

Guillaume Duval

Even America's most Russia-friendly president cannot deliver the ceasefire Moscow's strategic calculations demand.

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Can Europe preserve its distinctive social model while simultaneously rearming, reindustrialising, and reorganising its economy in a more conflictual and competitive world? This is the central question raised in this new edition of the Bilan social, a reference publication released every spring for more than 25 years by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Social Observatory (OSE).

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The EU is belatedly awakening to a changing Mediterranean sea, where more assertive regional powers are reclaiming a role.

The new issue of the magazine also reflects on how we struggle to keep pace with AI innovations, examines the uncertainties surrounding the execution of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and the risk to human rights posed by the Return Regulation, and focuses on the EU Commission's newly proposed Industrial Accelerator Act.

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