Hungary After Orbán: Why Tisza’s “New Hungary” May Leave Workers Behind
Hungary's new government promises to restore rule of law — but not labour rights.
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Europe’s Migration Promises Are Building A Dangerous Expectation Trap
Stricter return rules and border procedures sell reassurance to voters, but the evidence suggests Europe cannot deliver what politicians promise.
Europe Chose Greek Deficits Over Hungarian Democracy
In April 2010, the EU betrayed Greece and enabled Orbán — and has yet to reckon with either.
Hungary’s Long Road From Electoral Autocracy to Plural Democracy
Péter Magyar's election victory gives Hungary its best chance in a generation to break with a centuries-long pattern of authoritarian rule.
Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work
Silicon Valley's quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised.
Deregulation Demands Threaten the EU’s Best Chance to Close the Gender Pay Gap
Employer lobbying to weaken the EU Pay Transparency Directive risks condemning European women to decades more of unequal pay.
What Hungary Can Learn From Poland
Following Tisza’s victory over Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party in Sunday’s election, the opposition faces an uphill battle in trying to restore Hungary’s democracy.
EU Inc. Trades Worker Rights for Silicon Valley Fantasy
The European Commission's proposed EU Inc. corporate form promises startup-friendly simplicity but threatens worker participation, collective power, and Europe's social model.
From Hitler’s Industrialists to Trump’s Tech Bros: The Case for Democracy at Work
The alignment of America's tech billionaires with authoritarian politics echoes 1930s industrial collaboration — but Germany and Spain offer a democratic remedy.
Big Tech and Populism Share a Common Enemy: Democratic Oversight
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.
The United States Faces a Crisis It Once Diagnosed in Others
Historians and political scientists now identify the United States as exhibiting the very warning signs it once monitored in fragile states abroad.
Empire Resurgent: How Ultra-Nationalism Is Dismantling the World Order
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.
America’s Middle East War Exposes the Collapse of Its Own Strategy
The attack on Iran has shattered the very non-interventionist vision Trump's own national security document enshrined just weeks earlier.
The Relative Rise of Europe’s Poor
Europe's poorer nations and citizens are climbing the income ladder — and the data show the Union is more cohesive than its critics claim.
Four Decades of Data Reveal a European Workforce Transformed Beyond Recognition
Eurofound's 2024 working conditions survey charts how digitalisation, demography, and climate change have reshaped European labour over 35 years.