The industrialization-led growth model is faltering. Developing economies’ best hope now lies in raising productivity across labour-absorbing services.

As welfare provision retreats, European states police the marginalised while laundering networks and corporate enablers escape scrutiny.

Berlin’s new growth package and pension overhaul dodge the real problem: the collapse of corporate investment and innovation.

Hungary’s opposition beat Orbán not by shunning national symbols but by taking ownership of them. An inclusive nation: Magyar wove Europe, the Roma, li ...

Brussels wants to double recycling by 2030, but efficiency targets alone cannot build a fairer, more resilient economy.

The Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) could let the EU reverse manufacturing’s decline, but its critics are reaching for the stale laissez-faire arguments that got us into trouble in the first place. A ...

The Commission’s upcoming proposals on carbon markets and electrification will signal whether Europe still means to decarbonise.

A decades-long union campaign on wage protection helped Swiss voters bury the SVP’s population cap and keep the EU door open.

Dear Mr Weber, You are European, but also German. One should be entitled to expect from you a particular understanding of history. In recent months, however, you have shown that such an ...

Zsolt Enyedi is Professor of Political Science at the Central European University (CEU).

Artificial intelligence is regarded as the driving force of progress. Yet it has long since become a challenge to democracy. The book argues that uncontrolled AI will erode our freedom, ...

Robin Wilson: Your new book, Social Democracy, is a sobering account of social democracy since its emergence, charting a steadily diminishing political ambition—a fading of the red flag, if you ...