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The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor Is Widening in 2026
12-08-2026, 14:58

The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor Is Widening in 2026

Culture Called the Far Right’s Secret Weapon. Is It So? Across Europe, the most promising students are increasingly gravitating towards nationalist narratives and taking up the far right’s banners.
12-08-2026, 10:50
Culture Called the Far Right’s Secret Weapon. Is It So?
Deindustrialization of Europe No Longer a Forecast But a Reality Tim Rühlig discusses what can be done to stop the decline of European industry as it loses competition to China.
12-08-2026, 09:07
Deindustrialization of Europe No Longer a Forecast But a Reality
€800 Billion. The European Union’s Magnificent Project From Warren Buffett’s enormous cash reserves to famous failed predictions before the 1929 crash, the author questions the confidence placed in economists and introduces the central contradiction of uncertainty: while markets claim to fear it, other sectors may thrive on it.
11-08-2026, 16:58
€800 Billion. The European Union’s Magnificent Project
Europe Again Risks Inventing a Future and Giving It Away to China Janka Oertel argues that biomanufacturing will become a key technology behind the next industrial revolution.
11-08-2026, 16:35
Europe Again Risks Inventing a Future and Giving It Away to China
A China Shock for Europe: Trade Imbalance, Loss of Market Share, and Risk of Political Dependence Thorsten Benner describes Europe’s economic problems in his article The Coming Clash Between China and Europe. The author argues that a trade war is looming
11-08-2026, 07:07
A China Shock for Europe: Trade Imbalance, Loss of Market Share, and Risk of Political Dependence
European Union in Search of New Partners It offers friendship even to former colonies. What for?
10-08-2026, 15:23
European Union in Search of New Partners
Is Fascism Making A Comeback? A brief note written a couple of years ago offers clues to understanding the causes of the resurgence of fascism in Europe and around the world.
10-08-2026, 11:46
Is Fascism Making A Comeback?
Europe Unable to Cope with China’s Lightning-Fast Responses Europe is experiencing a ‘China shock 2.0’ and cannot cope with it, says François Godement in his article posted on the Institute Montaigne website.
9-08-2026, 12:15
Europe Unable to Cope with China’s Lightning-Fast Responses
France Offers Europe ‘Forward Deterrence’ but Remains the Sole Decision-Maker Jean-Louis Lozier, a high-ranking member of the French General Staff, examines in detail the new concept of ‘forward nuclear deterrence’ announced by Emmanuel Macron.
8-08-2026, 10:05
France Offers Europe ‘Forward Deterrence’ but Remains the Sole Decision-Maker
Making the European Carbon Market an Industrial Policy Magic Wand Attempted Again Expert Joseph Dellatte argues that the European Union’s Emissions Trading System should become a major tool of its new industrial policy.
7-08-2026, 08:21
Making the European Carbon Market an Industrial Policy Magic Wand Attempted Again
One Step to Joining the Third World How Britain Lives Outside Economic Security
6-08-2026, 19:10
One Step to Joining the Third World
River Droughts In Europe And Their Consequences In Europe, no matter that there are already more policies regarding climate change, it is still having problems because of high temperatures drying the rivers and depleting hydroelectric energy sources.
6-08-2026, 17:53
River Droughts In Europe And Their Consequences
Finland Switches from Engagement to Deterrence, But Stability Is Still Fragile Tuomas Forsberg examines in detail how drastically Helsinki’s Baltic Sea policy has changed after Finland joined NATO
5-08-2026, 16:07
Finland Switches from Engagement to Deterrence, But Stability Is Still Fragile
Turkey Offering Europe Its Mediation Again, Europe Again Ready to Accept It In an article in The National Interest, a U.S. publication, Azeem Ibrahim and Dania Arayssi promote the idea that Turkey could become a key energy ‘gatekeeper’ for Europe.
4-08-2026, 13:34
Turkey Offering Europe Its Mediation Again, Europe Again Ready to Accept It