A compulsory second-tier pension fund invested exclusively in social housing would tame rents, boost employment, and deliver ...

New research reveals that EU fiscal tightening reduces output, raises unemployment, and widens income gaps — especially ...

The American-Israeli assault has decapitated Iran's regime, but the cascade of geopolitical consequences threatens to ...

A senior minister's vulgar remark about Roma "cleaning train toilets" was no gaffe — it was a campaign programme in miniature ...

Chronic uncertainty does not mobilise democratic publics — it paralyses them, and that paralysis is itself a tool of power.

A German proposal to unite the EU's six largest countries confronts a Union paralysed by the dominance of its smallest members.

The assault on Iran defies every stated justification; the real motives point to democratic backsliding and personal enrichment.

Last Monday, European Union member states reached a provisional agreement on the compromise text of the directive on platform work. This momentous decision comes more than two years after the European ...

Donald Trump has taken the exercise of power to its most absurd extreme. He rules a state that he seeks to destroy.

A year ago, in early 2025, both the United States and United Kingdom governments announced that Official Development Assistance (ODA) would be severely curtailed. France, Germany, and the European ...

At the end of the Cold War, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called ‘The end of history?’. Communism’s collapse, he argued, would clear the last obstacle separating ...

A survey in 2018 by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre found that Spain led the European Union in the volume of work conducted via platforms, with 18 per cent of the working-age ...