As geopolitical threats mount and the far right advances, Europe must respond with principled strength and genuine industrial ...

Geoff Mulgan reimagines the state as a lean, agile force that delivers power without the drag of bureaucracy.

In certain ways, last autumn in the United States recalled the autumn of 1938 in Nazi Germany, when mass deportation of ...

At the beginning of November, EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas proudly unveiled the action plan for a high-speed rail network connecting Europe’s major cities. Just days earlier, ...

“Germany’s economy is in free fall,” warns Peter Leibinger, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). The German automotive sector, at the heart of its business model, is undergoing a ...

Like the daily newspaper Le Monde recently, European media are regularly highlighting the significant difficulties faced by former Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas in carrying out her duties as ...

The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as never before since 1945. To ...

This text is a translated transcript of a lecture delievred at the Siemens Foundationon on 19 November 2025. The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered, among other things, a belated recognition among ...

The Next Generation EU (NGEU) programme, with its core element the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), represents the largest joint EU investment initiative ever undertaken, with a potential ...

Every December in recent years, I think back to the time when Jeremy Corbyn, then the leader of the opposition Labour Party in my adopted country, the United Kingdom, quoted from a New Year’s speech ...

In an earlier column in June 2025, I wrote that Europe must prepare to conceptualise European security without the United States, arguing that the domestic political cost of dependency on US security ...