SOCIAL EUROPE

TODAY

Europe’s Cities Were Designed For A Climate That No Longer Exists

At least 10,000 Europeans died in a single week of June — and the response starts with street design.

YESTERDAY

Simpler AI Rules Must Not Mean Weaker Safety for Europe’s Workers

The Digital Omnibus strips machinery from the AI Act’s high-risk regime, leaving worker safeguards in limbo.

JULY 29. 2026

Burnham’s Break with Thatcherism Matters for All Europe

Britain’s new Prime Minister blames four decades of neoliberalism for national malaise — and continental progressives should pay attention.

Social Democrats Cannot Sit Out the Culture War Any Longer

As the far right reshapes democracy, progressives from Berlin to Washington must decide whether cultural struggle beats technocratic caution.

JULY 28. 2026

Ireland’s EU Presidency Must Treat Housing as a Right, Not an Asset

For six months, Dublin can steer the EU’s affordable housing plan and €2 trillion budget — if it dares.

JULY 27. 2026

Europe’s Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU’s Budget

Taxes on wealth, crypto and financial trades could raise billions no single member state can collect alone.

JULY 24. 2026

The Case Against Trading Europe’s Welfare State for Warfare

A decade of evidence shows Europe’s welfare state drives growth – making calls to cut it for rearmament self-defeating.

JULY 22. 2026

How I Became a Manufacturing Skeptic

The industrialization-led growth model is faltering. Developing economies’ best hope now lies in raising productivity across labour-absorbing services.

JULY 21. 2026

Europe’s Drug War Punishes the Poor and Spares the Powerful

As welfare provision retreats, European states police the marginalised while laundering networks and corporate enablers escape scrutiny.

JULY 20. 2026

Péter Magyar Defeated Orbán on Nationalist Ground

In Budapest, Magyar took back the flag — and showed Europe how to beat the far right.

JULY 17. 2026

The Industrial Accelerator Act Is Too Weak, Not Too Protectionist

Bruegel wants the EU to drop its manufacturing target and trust the market China spent decades engineering.

Germany’s Seventh Year of Stagnation Exposes a Missing Strategy

Berlin’s new growth package and pension overhaul dodge the real problem: the collapse of corporate investment and innovation.

JULY 15. 2026

The Climate Consensus of 2019 Is Gone — Europe Needs a New One

The Commission’s upcoming proposals on carbon markets and electrification will signal whether Europe still means to decarbonise.

JULY 14. 2026

FIFA Has Made World Cup Tickets a Financial Instrument

Ghost tickets, surge pricing, and resale fees reveal how football’s biggest event now profits from its own fans.