Brussels wants to double recycling by 2030, but efficiency targets alone cannot build a fairer, more resilient economy.

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

Laurent Standaert is the Director of the Green European Foundation.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, published in May 2026, is an unlikely document to set beside the CHIPS Act, the EU AI Act, or the most recent filings of frontier artificial intelligence ...