SOCIAL EUROPE

JUNE 3. 2026

Europe’s €2 Trillion Lever: Public Procurement Can Tame Big Tech

Europe spends €2 trillion a year buying goods and services; treating that money as mere book-keeping squanders a decisive democratic lever.

JUNE 2. 2026

The Global South Cannot Afford to Quit Fossil Fuels

Renewables have won the cost argument, yet poorer nations still pay a steep premium to deploy them.

JUNE 1. 2026

Leveraging the EU Single Market to escape the Trump Trap

Leveraging the EU Single Market to escape the Trump Trap…

MAY 28. 2026

The Right’s Pragmatism Is Just Another Ideology in Disguise

Conservatives who deride “isms” are not transcending ideology — they are smuggling theirs in unexamined.

MAY 27. 2026

Austerity Erodes The Governments That Impose It

Austerity packages reduce approval, drive protests, and raise the odds of a government crisis — especially in downturns.

MAY 26. 2026

A Post-American Europe Must Build Its Own Power

As Washington turns transactional and Beijing rises, Europe must convert its economic weight into genuine strategic power.

MAY 21. 2026

The EU Trades One Gas Dependence for Another

The bloc has swapped Russian pipelines for American tankers — without breaking its addiction to imported fossil fuels.

MAY 20. 2026

Sociology Is Surrendering Its Public Voice to Philosophy

As modernity falters, sociology cannot diagnose the society it once helped define — and philosophy has taken its place.

MAY 19. 2026

No Procedure Can Manufacture a European Demos

Across federalist, fiscal and deliberative proposals, Europe’s reformers keep deferring the one question integration cannot bypass.

MAY 18. 2026

Targeted Infrastructure Spending Slows AfD Gains In Germany’s Industrial Heartlands

Targeted infrastructure spending dampens AfD vote growth in Germany’s transition-pressured regions, but innovation funding still bypasses them.

MAY 15. 2026

The Forty-Year Gap Between Europe’s Equality Law And Its Practice

European law forces 40 per cent gender balance on listed boardrooms but exempts the cabinets that actually wield public power.

MAY 13. 2026

Deregulation Will Make Europe Poorer, Not Stronger

Three former European Commissioners warn that scrapping social protections in pursuit of competitiveness will leave the Union weaker, not stronger.

Declining Dollar Dominance: Potential Euro Gains

Without large-scale joint debt and deeper safe-asset markets, the euro cannot capitalise on Trump’s assault on dollar credibility.

MAY 12. 2026

May 8 Belongs in the Calendar of Every European Democracy

As eyewitnesses fade and the far right reframes liberation as defeat, EU institutions must answer with policy.