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Economy and ecology

Europe has an investment problem

Decades of underinvestment and regional disparities have left Europe divided. What is needed is a continent-wide investment strategy

By David Harrison

pa / Keystone | Urs Flueeler

Foreign and security policy

What does neutrality mean?

Swiss voters will decide this Sunday whether to put tighter limits on their foreign policy

By Christopher Forst

pa / TASS | Maxim Churusov

Democracy and society

Stagnation by design

Russia’s State Duma election reveals a regime wary of change. Yet its risk aversion should not be mistaken for weakness

By Alexey Yusupov

picture alliance / Anadolu | Yauhen Yerchak

Foreign and security policy

Can sanctions buy freedom?

Prisoner releases are reviving debates over whether engagement with Minsk can deliver meaningful change

By Artyom Shraibman

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Future of social democracy

Strong on security, weak on solidarity

A stronger Europe cannot be built on competitiveness alone. Von der Leyen’s agenda dangerously sidelines social cohesion

By Valentina Berndt

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Future of social democracy

When a home becomes a privilege

Solving the housing crisis is not just social policy. It is democratic self-defence

By Sophie Martiné, Pietro Ventriglia, Lisa Pfann

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Democracy and society

The search for a ‘We’

The right has a definition. Social democracy is still struggling to find an answer. Andy Burnham could change that

By Nick Garland

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Democracy and society

Experts call this normalisation

Four years of right-wing rule have shifted Sweden’s political centre. Can the left reverse the trend?

By Kristina Birke Daniels

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Democracy and society

What Alternative?

The far right’s election breakthrough in eastern Germany is about more than protest

By David Fleschen

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Democracy and society

If they’re too strong, you’re too weak

The Saxony-Anhalt election has once again shown that people vote for parties because they expect them to solve problems

By Nikolaos Gavalakis