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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Europe stands at a crossroads. Strategic dependencies, technological disruptions, fiscal constraints and an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape have created a perfect storm of challenges. If ...

Gergő Motyovszki is a PhD candidate in economics at the European University Institute in Florence. His research is about how household heterogeneity affects monetary and fiscal policies in open ...