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NextGenerationEU exposed an awkward truth: governments reform faster when Brussels offers cash than when it threatens punishment.

Trade wars suggest deglobalisation, but the AI race is wiring the world together at unprecedented speed.

Europe drowns in cheap capital yet starves for investment — because its biggest firms now lend rather than build.

A southern-solar, north-south grid offers Europe an escape from both Russian gas and overpriced American LNG.

The Commission’s optional “EU company” lets firms register anywhere and sidestep the national rules that protect workers.

A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.

France is set to make decisive political choices in the coming year.

After 16 years of illiberal rule, Péter Magyar must rebuild Hungarian democracy without breaking its own constitutional rules.

Europe’s industrial transition risks becoming a social tsunami; only binding labour guarantees, not soft coordination, can prevent it.

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.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we communicate, access information, and work, how income and status are distributed, and even how we wage war.

An IPO engineered for rapid index inclusion turns ordinary pension savers into involuntary financiers of Elon Musk’s fantasies.

As central banks squeeze households, corporations protect their margins — and the European social model pays the price.

Central banks are again poised to raise rates against an oil-shock inflation — and again the costs will dwarf the effects.