The EU’s Digital Euro Is Drowning in the Global Stablecoin Wave
The window for the digital euro is closing. If the EU fails to accelerate its timeline, alternative private digital payment systems from the US threaten to render the project obsolete before it even launches.
Outsiders at Home: Cultural Repression and the Politics of Visibility in Russia
How Putin’s repression forced creators into exile and why youth continue to resist.
Sudan: The Make-or-Break Test for a Human Rights-Based International Order
Sudan is a stress-test of whether human rights will remain a principle in the new emerging international order.
Why Supporting the People of Iran Is a Moral Responsibility and a Historic Opportunity
Moments when ethical responsibility and geopolitical opportunity align are rare—and Iran may be one of them.
Saving Climate Diplomacy From the Consensus and Legitimacy Traps
COP-30 has exposed a climate regime that is no longer merely slow—it is fundamentally unable to act and deliver solutions.
Transfer Mispricing: How Multinational Enterprises Shift Profits into Losses for Africa
How do multinational enterprises use transfer mispricing to shift profits abroad, depriving African countries of vital tax revenues?
The Mamdani Effect Exposes the Real Democratic Gap
Zohran Mamdani’s New York success offers hope for a new way of doing politics… at a risk.
Trump’s First-Year Misjudgement of Russia’s Intentions
The Trump administration’s first year of Russia–Ukraine diplomacy has been driven by one underlying assumption: that the Kremlin would prefer the conflict ended. Yet Russia’s recent military budgets, political signalling, and strategic behaviour point in the opposite direction.
A New Threshold in Romania’s Democracy: Its Own Justice System
An independent investigation into Romania’s Justice System: How Recorder’s documentary exposed alleged judicial abuses, sparked nationwide protests, and provoked reactions from the country’s political and institutional leadership.
From City Hall to the Continent: The Mamdani Effect and Europe’s New Left
An unlikely mayoral victory in New York City is rippling across the Atlantic, as Europe’s left looks to Zohran Mamdani’s grassroots surge for clues on how to confront rising inequality and the far right.
European Defence: Is Germany a “False Friend”?
As the EU’s largest industrial power, Germany’s defence-industrial decisions are becoming a central fault line between Europe’s ambitions of military autonomy and continued reliance on the US.
European Democracy Begins With a People, Not More Institutions
The EU’s democratic deficit runs deeper than its institutional framework—it lies in Europeans’ lack of shared reason to politicise it.
