Europe's leaders, paralysed by fear, are repeating the mistakes of the 1930s—and hastening their own irrelevance.

After 15 years of Fidesz rule, an unlikely challenger threatens Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary but formidable obstacles remain.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...