SOCIAL EUROPE

MARCH 9. 2026

Pensions, Housing, Jobs: One Fund to Fix Them All

A compulsory second-tier pension fund invested exclusively in social housing would tame rents, boost employment, and deliver stable retirement income.

Populism’s Real Target in Europe Is Not the Elite — It Is the Worker

Populist leaders promise to empower “the people” but systematically sideline the institutions through which workers actually exercise power.

MARCH 4. 2026

The Iran War Has Nothing to Do with Nuclear Weapons

The assault on Iran defies every stated justification; the real motives point to democratic backsliding and personal enrichment.

Iran Crisis Proves Europe Cannot Delay Its Industrial Transformation

The US–Israeli strikes on Iran lay bare every fault line in Europe's energy dependence, industrial fragility, and strategic exposure — and demand an immediate policy response.

MARCH 3. 2026

European Sovereignty Demands a Social Foundation, Not a US Blueprint

A 'Draghi light' agenda of deregulation risks social repression — but a bolder path rooted in Europe's social democratic tradition offers a credible alternative.

Disorientation Is the Point: How Permanent Unpredictability Broke Democratic Politics

Chronic uncertainty does not mobilise democratic publics — it paralyses them, and that paralysis is itself a tool of power.

MARCH 2. 2026

The War on Iran Has Begun — Here Are Ten Issues That Will Shape What Comes Next

The American-Israeli assault has decapitated Iran's regime, but the cascade of geopolitical consequences threatens to destabilise the entire global order.

FEBRUARY 27. 2026

Aid Is Not Development: We Need a Different Conversation

Despite trillions spent over decades, more people than ever face starvation—because aid was never designed to end poverty.

FEBRUARY 26. 2026

Fiscal Consolidation Costs Europe Jobs and Deepens Inequality

New research reveals that EU fiscal tightening reduces output, raises unemployment, and widens income gaps — especially during recessions.

FEBRUARY 25. 2026

The Locked-Out Generation: Europe’s Housing Market Is Failing Its Young

Across the continent, soaring prices and stagnant supply have turned homeownership into a mirage for many young Europeans

FEBRUARY 24. 2026

Trump The Rebel King

Donald Trump has taken the exercise of power to its most absurd extreme. He rules a state that he seeks to destroy.

How Orbán’s Fidesz Instrumentalises Hungary’s Roma as an Electoral Prop

A senior minister's vulgar remark about Roma "cleaning train toilets" was no gaffe — it was a campaign programme in miniature.

FEBRUARY 23. 2026

Why a Club of Six Nations Is Both Europe’s Best Hope and Its Greatest Risk

A German proposal to unite the EU's six largest countries confronts a Union paralysed by the dominance of its smallest members.

FEBRUARY 20. 2026

All Quiet on the Eastern Front

Russia's war on Ukraine grinds into its fifth year, yet the Kremlin's strategic position is deteriorating on every front.