SOCIAL EUROPE

JANUARY 13. 2026

America’s New Age of Empire

Joseph E. Stiglitz thinks the rest of the world should plan for the worst and pursue a policy of containment of the US.

JANUARY 12. 2026

Why Social Democrats Must Stop Defending and Start Transforming

The centre-left's defensive crouch has made it look like a guardian of an unfair status quo—radical reformism offers escape.

JANUARY 8. 2026

Appeasing Trump Makes Him More Dangerous by the Day

Europe's leaders, paralysed by fear, are repeating the mistakes of the 1930s—and hastening their own irrelevance.

Can Hungary’s Opposition Finally Break Orbán’s Grip on Power?

After 15 years of Fidesz rule, an unlikely challenger threatens Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary but formidable obstacles remain.

JANUARY 7. 2026

Don’t Mourn, Organise: Europe’s Path Through Global Turbulence

As geopolitical threats mount and the far right advances, Europe must respond with principled strength and genuine industrial renewal.

JANUARY 6. 2026

Strength Without Weight: Ideas For A Post-Bureaucratic State

Geoff Mulgan reimagines the state as a lean, agile force that delivers power without the drag of bureaucracy.

JANUARY 5. 2026

Venezuela And The Decline Of American Democracy

Timothy Snyder sees a familiar connection between US domestic repression and escalating foreign aggression.

DECEMBER 18. 2025

Project 2025: From Nightmare To Reality

The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook

Europe Must Re-Build Its Architecture—Now!

The US National Security Strategy confirms what Europeans already suspected: they must forge their own continental framework.

DECEMBER 17. 2025

Europe’s Rail Renaissance: Why the Continent Must Finally Bet on Its Own Trains

The EU has the technology, the workers and the demand—now it needs the political will to turn its railway industry into a climate-policy success story.