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Silicon Valley’s quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised.

Employer lobbying to weaken the EU Pay Transparency Directive risks condemning European women to decades more of unequal pay.

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.

The European Commission’s proposed EU Inc. corporate form promises startup-friendly simplicity but threatens worker participation, collective power, and Europe’s social model.

The alignment of America’s tech billionaires with authoritarian politics echoes 1930s industrial collaboration — but Germany and Spain offer a democratic remedy.

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…

Historians and political scientists now identify the United States as exhibiting the very warning signs it once monitored in fragile states abroad.

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.

The attack on Iran has shattered the very non-interventionist vision Trump’s own national security document enshrined just weeks earlier.

Europe’s poorer nations and citizens are climbing the income ladder — and the data show the Union is more cohesive than its critics claim.

Eurofound’s 2024 working conditions survey charts how digitalisation, demography, and climate change have reshaped European labour over 35 years.

As Hungary nears a pivotal vote, Russian operatives and an entrenched power network cloud the path to democratic change.

EU social policy measures outputs efficiently — but the lived experience of its supposed beneficiaries tells a very different story.

The battle for human attention has become the defining geopolitical and democratic contest of the digital age.