As artificial intelligence concentrates power among a handful of technology giants, the structural interests of those firms and of populist politics are quietly converging around a shared hostility to institutional constraints.
Historians and political scientists now identify the United States as exhibiting the very warning signs it once monitored in fragile states abroad.
The Israeli-US strike on Iran is not an isolated event, but the latest lurch in a systemic breakdown of international order — and the world must respond.
The attack on Iran has shattered the very non-interventionist vision Trump's own national security document enshrined just weeks earlier.
Europe's poorer nations and citizens are climbing the income ladder — and the data show the Union is more cohesive than its critics claim.
Eurofound's 2024 working conditions survey charts how digitalisation, demography, and climate change have reshaped European labour over 35 years.
As Hungary nears a pivotal vote, Russian operatives and an entrenched power network cloud the path to democratic change.
EU social policy measures outputs efficiently — but the lived experience of its supposed beneficiaries tells a very different story.
The battle for human attention has become the defining geopolitical and democratic contest of the digital age.
The normalisation of war demands not the burial of international law, but its urgent reinvention — and Europe must lead the charge.
Workplace health and safety policies built around a male default leave millions of women exposed to risks that better regulation could prevent.
During the High-level Conference on Social Rights this month in Chișinău, Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe, gave an exclusive interview to Social Europe.
A recent EU survey exposes the chasm between headline economic data and the financial reality confronting households across Europe.
Trump's personality cult follows a well-worn historical playbook — but his pathological narcissism ensures he cannot deploy it effectively.
A remarkable consensus on social rights is emerging as Europe's answer to inequality, democratic backsliding and geopolitical upheaval.
As coalition formation grows ever more tortuous, the Netherlands must confront whether proportional representation itself is the problem.
Five years after the coup, foreign brands and the EU's trade preferences continue to generate hard currency for a military regime waging war on its own people.