2025 was a good year for Donald Trump—success on all fronts. His tariff hikes did not destroy the global trading system; instead, they filled US state coffers. Inflation did not go through the roof.
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, ...