Incentives Beat Threats: Europe’s Quiet Reform Breakthrough
NextGenerationEU exposed an awkward truth: governments reform faster when Brussels offers cash than when it threatens punishment.
Hyperglobalization 2.0: Why AI Has Not Slowed the World Down
Trade wars suggest deglobalisation, but the AI race is wiring the world together at unprecedented speed.
Europe’s Largest Companies Now Lend More Than They Invest
Europe drowns in cheap capital yet starves for investment — because its biggest firms now lend rather than build.
Why Solar Grids, Not American LNG, Should Power Europe Next
A southern-solar, north-south grid offers Europe an escape from both Russian gas and overpriced American LNG.
EU Inc Is a Deregulation Tool in Disguise
The Commission’s optional “EU company” lets firms register anywhere and sidestep the national rules that protect workers.
Democracy, Control, or Competitiveness: The AI Trilemma
A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.
A Solidarity Tax on Billionaires Could Raise €800 Billion
France is set to make decisive political choices in the coming year. On one side stands a nationalist right wing on the rise, increasingly aligned
Orbán Is Gone, but His State Machine Remains
After 16 years of illiberal rule, Péter Magyar must rebuild Hungarian democracy without breaking its own constitutional rules.
Europe’s Industrial Tsunami Demands a Quality Jobs Act
Europe's industrial transition risks becoming a social tsunami; only binding labour guarantees, not soft coordination, can prevent it.
AI’s Real Danger Is What It Does Well
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.
The Pope Should Have Gone Further on AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we communicate, access information, and work, how income and status are distributed, and even how we wage war. Yet the
Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO Is Funded by Other People’s Pensions
An IPO engineered for rapid index inclusion turns ordinary pension savers into involuntary financiers of Elon Musk's fantasies.
Higher Interest Rates Punish Workers for a Crisis They Did Not Cause
As central banks squeeze households, corporations protect their margins — and the European social model pays the price.
The ECB’s Costly Illusion: Rate Hikes That Do Not Reach Inflation
Central banks are again poised to raise rates against an oil-shock inflation — and again the costs will dwarf the effects.
Europe’s Climate Policies Keep Missing the People Who Need Them Most
Adaptation schemes built for the informed and well-off keep failing those most exposed to climate shocks.
Labour’s Coalition Has Shattered, and Starmer Needs A Theory to Rebuild It
Labour bleeds four voters to the left for every one it loses to Reform — and cannot explain why.
Habermas’s Gaza Misjudgment Does Not Doom His Legacy
His reflexive defence of Israel contradicts the universal principles his life’s work was built to uphold.