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Hungary’s new government promises to restore rule of law — but not labour rights.

Stricter return rules and border procedures sell reassurance to voters, but the evidence suggests Europe cannot deliver what politicians promise.

Record applications to the EU civil service reveal saturated labour markets, a hollowed-out state and a generation exposed to automation.

In April 2010, the EU betrayed Greece and enabled Orbán — and has yet to reckon with either.

Péter Magyar’s election victory gives Hungary its best chance in a generation to break with a centuries-long pattern of authoritarian rule.

As the world is plunged into another energy crisis, market allocation is leading to grossly unjust outcomes, as the rich outbid the poor.

Surging Chinese exports, a sliding renminbi and a depleted European industrial base are colliding — and Brussels has run out of time to respond.

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.