EuropeA Bismarckian welfare state for the Western Balkans? What Bismarck would say about social protection in times of a changing world of work. A thought experiment By Paul Stubbs
EuropeReigning in the EU’s financiers of austerity A democratic assembly should replace the powerful brokers of the Eurogroup, Thomas Piketty and other thinkers argue By Paul Hockenos
Interviews'Driven by the same fear' What's going on in France? Luc Rouban on common causes of left and right-wing protests and the role of Macron
Interviews‘An unpredictable player’ Established parties are still struggling to deal with Germany's right-wing populists. A conversation with Wolfgang Schroeder
EuropeReturn to sender How a postal strike caused government turmoil in Finland and made Sanna Marin the country's youngest prime minister By Heikki Jokinen
EuropeAn empty promise of a fresh start EU policies don’t tackle root causes of migration – they risk aggravating them. And von der Leyen doesn't offer a 'fresh start' By Lasse Juhl Morthorst
EuropeGeorgia's neoliberal agony In Georgia, the state has given up on development. Neoliberalism is exhausted — there's nothing left to sell or deregulate By Mate Gabitsinashvili
EuropeA Chinese perspective on German foreign policy Germany needs to find its way at a time when the multilateral world order is faltering and foreign policy egomania is rampant By Jiang Feng Jiang Feng
EuropeA truly geopolitical EU Commission? Rather than playing geopolitical games itself, von der Leyen’s Commission should be critical of the very notion of geopolitics By Marius Müller-Hennig
EuropeGangs of the North In Sweden, gang-related crimes are on the rise. Under pressure from the right, the government reacts with tough measures By Henrik Tham
