The Austrian far-right FPÖ’s likely return to government raises concerns about the erosion of liberal democracy.
This idea of putting people first has always been the core of Europe’s social market economy. We want strong social partners.
Amid crises, breakthroughs at the G20 and UN offer hope for global cooperation and fairness.
How the EU must act to survive mounting global threats. At the beginning of December, as the new European Commission began ...
Shaping European Policy in the second half of the 2020s" project, conducted in collaboration with our partners at the ...
There was a proud and defiant atmosphere outside the headquarters of The Guardian newspaper in London last week. The “chapel” (that is, workforce) had voted overwhelmingly to go on strike, and here ...
Elon Musk’s bid to “reinvent” government through Trump’s advisory DOGE commission will likely be a meme-worthy spectacle, but history and poor design doom it to failure. In exchange for helping Donald ...
The EU faces mounting pressure to address economic, security, and climate challenges, but the rise of radical right parties threatens to derail the reforms needed to secure Europe’s future. In the ...
As climate change worsens, Spain’s new labour measures could set the perfect precedent for protecting workers against events that are no longer so unpredictable. The development of robust legal ...
As authoritarian regimes rise globally, progressives face the urgent challenge of defending democracy without reinforcing the very divisions that fuel its decline. In one of Ernest Hemingway’s famous ...
Grand promises of a “strong social Europe” have given way to a sidelined agenda. As the Commission shifts focus, the EU must decide: will social policy make a comeback or fade into irrelevance?
Europeans are torn between fearing the vulnerabilities of American decline and seeing in it a chance to assert their own autonomy, yet Europe’s own challenges suggest this is more peril than ...