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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.

Militarism and ecological collapse are not separate emergencies — they are the same emergency, feeding each other in a spiral humanity cannot afford to ignore.

The easing of Russian oil restrictions amid the Iran crisis reveals sanctions as tools of power, not justice.

The greatest democratic theorist of the postwar era leaves behind a world dismantling everything he defended.

The Atlantic alliance is over. The best to hope for is an entente recognising Europe and the US still have shared interests.

Progressive politics has rediscovered affordability, but an economic agenda that ignores the dignity and quality of work is only half a strategy.

Democratic backsliding and rising social insecurity have gone hand in hand.

The US-Israeli assault on Iran was launched mid-negotiation, without UN backing, making it more dangerous to international law than Iraq.

The Epstein revelations are symptoms of a deeper crisis: a political economy that rewards extraction over creation and concentrates power in ever fewer hands.

Bold choices, not better messaging, are the only way to save Europe's centre-left from electoral extinction.

From Venezuela to Gaza, the selective application of international law by powerful states and their critics alike is draining the post-1945 order of its last reserves of legitimacy.

Europe's response to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran exposes a continent locked in dependency and struggling to find its voice.