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picture alliance / AP Photo/Manu Fernandez | Manu Fernandez

A roof, a right, a reckoning

Spain’s housing crisis has brought down the government. Now Pedro Sánchez wants to use this, of all things, to mobilise the left-wing electorate

picture alliance / Zoonar | Katerina Solovyeva

Foreign and security policy

Peace is best served cold

Grand bargains are fading from Mediterranean diplomacy. For the EU, patience may be its most useful asset

By Camille Limon

pa / APA-Images | Georg Hochmuth

Future of social democracy

Bye-bye Babler

From left-wing firebrand to pragmatic economist: Austria’s Social Democrats are changing course. But will a new leader be enough to revive the SPÖ?

By Barbara Tóth

pa / NurPhoto | STR

Foreign and security policy

Starting a war is easier than ending one

Militarily superior, yet still without victory. In Ukraine and Iran, escalation has exposed the limits of force — and the lack of an exit strategy

By Herbert Wulf

pa/dpa | Sven Hoppe

Everyone involved, no one in charge

Talk of the risks of AI is everywhere. But who is responsible if something goes wrong? It is time for international oversight

By Gabriela Ramos

picture alliance / AP Photo/Eraldo Peres | Eraldo Peres

Ensnared by success

Lula’s policies have transformed Brazil, and with them, people’s expectations. Now the Left must find answers to these changing demands

By Jan Souverein

picture alliance / imageBROKER | Moritz Wolf

Europe is not losing the sanctions fight

It is undermining them itself

By Svitlana Romanko

picture alliance / Anadolu | Thomas Krych

‘Progressives need their own story of national renewal’

Labour MP Liam Byrne on dealing with right-wing populism, national identity and the idea of a radical centre