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A decades-long union campaign on wage protection helped Swiss voters bury the SVP’s population cap and keep the EU door open.

Dear Mr Weber, You are European, but also German. One should be entitled to expect from you a particular understanding of history.

Brussels wants to double recycling by 2030, but efficiency targets alone cannot build a fairer, more resilient economy.

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.