As Europe hardens its security agenda, it risks weakening the local foundations that make societies resilient in the first ...

A post-American world? Apparently not so bad after all. The collapse of the world order is going much better than expected ...

If it is true that art imitates life, works of imagination can reflect underlying truths about our own experience. The ...

A positive form of populism? Péter Magyar’s victory shows that if you want to beat illiberal forces, voters’ fears must be ...

The times when a communal creative introspection swept across the US have long gone — to the detriment of us all On the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, I felt the curious need to resist my usual ...

In 2020, Elon Musk posted a tweet asking people to ‘Take the red pill.’ Two years later, he bought Twitter, the platform now known as X. What followed was one of the most dramatic restructurings in ...

Samantha Elia is a feminist researcher and trainer currently working as a Senior Programme Manager for Political Feminism in the MENA region at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Her focus areas include ...

The EU and its member states have long held a clear and undisputed position: Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are illegal under international law and stand in the way of a two-state ...

Martin Konečný is the founder and director of the European Middle East Project (EuMEP), an independent organisation based in Brussels that focuses on European policy relating to the ...

Europe has spent decades confronting the legacies of colonialism, slavery and racial hierarchy. This reckoning has been necessary and remains incomplete. Yet Russia’s war against Ukraine has exposed a ...

Adam Kola is the am Vice-Rector for Research at Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU). His research has focused primarily on East and Central European intellectual history, the history of ideas and ...

In his first government policy statement, Chancellor Friedrich Merz emphasised: ‘We need to work more again in this country, and above all more efficiently. We will not be able to preserve this ...