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Pexels/Mati Mango

Work and digitalisation

Retreat into cyberspace

To save the planet, governments are pressuring individuals to adapt, reducing the likelihood of resistance. Cyberspace could be an escape

By Ayad Al-Ani

Reuters/ Ludovic Marin

Foreign and security policy

Communication à la Macron

Macron does not tire of debating issues which are uncomfortable for Europeans. But his methods are often counterproductive

By Gesine Weber

Reuters/ Denis Balibouse

Economy and ecology

The failure of Credit Suisse

While the bank was indeed mismanaged, its collapse also reveals a system of regulation with as many holes as a Swiss cheese

By Peter Bofinger

Reuters/Luis Cortes

Democracy and society

Mexico’s authoritarian restoration

President López Obrador is planning to re-centralise power. To achieve this, he wants to put a leash on Mexico's independent electoral institute

By Sandra Weiss

Pexels

Democracy and society

The myth of meritocracy and the populist threat

Liberals love the idea of meritocracy. But while it promises equality of opportunity, it cannot create equality of condition

By Lisa Pelling

Reuters/ Johanna Geron

Interviews

'Finnish politics has experienced an enormous shift to the right'

Kristina Birke Daniels on Sanna Marin’s electoral loss and the difficulty of forming a government in Finland

Reuters/ Marko Savala

Foreign and security policy

A geopolitical game-changer

Finland and Sweden’s NATO accession will fill an existing gap – a ‘blind spot’ – in the organisation's defence planning for its eastern territory

By Lukas Hassebrauck

SPÖ Presse und Kommunikation (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Future of social democracy

The good man from Traiskirchen

The leadership dispute among the Austrian Social Democrats is escalating. Andreas Babler, a successful small-town mayor, might profit from this

By Robert Misik