NextGenerationEU exposed an awkward truth: governments reform faster when Brussels offers cash than when it threatens ...

Lucia Quaglia is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of ...

Mattia Guidi is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Siena. He has held teaching and research ...

The vision was made flesh in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, which set out to integrate Europe both politically and economically ...

Europe drowns in cheap capital yet starves for investment — because its biggest firms now lend rather than build.

Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas reframes AI as a question of who controls foundational infrastructures, not who profits ...

The Commission’s optional “EU company” lets firms register anywhere and sidestep the national rules that protect workers.

After 16 years of illiberal rule, Péter Magyar must rebuild Hungarian democracy without breaking its own constitutional rules ...

France is set to make decisive political choices in the coming year. On one side stands a nationalist right wing on the rise, ...

At Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, Keir Starmer finally found a political strategy to confront the rise of Britain’s far-right Reform party. With Reform soaring in the polls—at 27 per cent to ...

Zsuzsanna Szelényi is a foreign policy expert and the author of Tainted Democracy, Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary ...

We are often told that the age of hyperglobalisation is over. Trade wars, industrial policy, national-security restrictions, export controls, and geopolitical rivalry all seem to point towards a more ...