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picture alliance / NurPhoto | Morteza Nikoubazl

Work and digitalisation

Lethal blackout

Iran’s blackout – and the killing it facilitated – has been a tragedy for its people. It should also serve as a warning to Europe

By Hanna Voss, Mani Mostofi, Fereidoon Bashar

picture alliance / prisma | Stengert Nico

European integration

Europe’s strategic sleepwalking

Internal division and hesitation hinder us from shaping a multipolar world. We urgently need to turn global rupture into renewal

By Udo Bullmann

pa / reuters | Raquel Cunha

Democracy and society

Costa Rica is not an outlier, but a warning sign

Yesterday’s election marks the start of an authoritarian transformation, legitimised by a democratic mandate

By Daniel Mann

picture alliance / NurPhoto | Klaudia Radecka

Democracy and society

Diversity or decline?

Against the European trend, Spain aims to legalise half a million migrants. A strategic step to secure the country’s economic and demographic future

By Antón Gómez-Reino Varela

picture alliance / empics | Christopher Katsarov

Work and digitalisation

Laughter as an antidote to despair

The brutal reality of ICE spurs political resistance in the US — including online. Memes like #iceonice have become a form of empowerment

By Hanna Kirchberger

picture alliance / Design Pics | Dave Fleetham

Foreign and security policy

Sunsets and strategy

In a region of rising rivalries, ASEAN’s global soft power strategy rides on passports, planes and palm-fringed resorts

By Nikola Mikovic

picture alliance / newscom | Jason Alden

Foreign and security policy

Peace for sale

Trump’s Board of Peace is nothing more than political theatre. Europe must tear down its curtains

By René Wildangel

Canva/ IPS

Economy and ecology

Consume, depend, unplug, repeat

Energy policy is power politics. For years, EU leaders failed to grasp this basic fact. Now there is only one way out: produce our own energy

By Annika Joeres