Society
The Summer Nobody Tells Us About: High Mortality Rates, Promises, and Reality in Contemporary Italy
The Iran conflict and the civil war in Sudan have fanned concerns that the European Union could face another strong migration crisis similar to that of 2015.
How Prepared Is the EU for Another Migration Crisis?
Have you ever felt lonely? Or have you ever had that feeling of always being alone—and that something you see on your devices confirms that it’s better to be alone?...
When Loneliness Pays Off: The Economics of Loneliness in the Digital Age
The Migration Pact raises two questions: how to secure returns to non-EU countries and how to apply the Pact’s provisions in individual member States. If they stay unanswered, the Pact will not solve the migration problems. These conclusions follow from an article by expert Jean-Paul Tran Thiet posted on the Institut Montaigne website.
European Pact on Migration: Unanswered Questions
On 12 June 2026, the European Union’s new Pact on Migration and Asylum came into force. However, it remains difficult to grasp how it will work in practice. What can already be glimpsed today does not inspire optimism.
The Pact Enters into Force: Uncertainties and Risks of New European Migration Governance
More half of the Dutch population are concerned about migration, pessimistic about the future, and unsure that the government can solve the problem. This is attested to by four Public Monitor Social Stability surveys held by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in 2025 and 2026.
External Migration in the Netherlands, A Source of Threats and Problems
In two articles published in June 2026, Jarrett Stepman, a columnist at The Daily Signal, gives a detailed examination to two incidents that show how much British society has lost confidence in its own public institutions
Britain Reaping the Fruit of Migration Without Assimilation – with the Authorities Still Claiming that Only the Right Wing Is to Blame
In the analytical report Radicalisation in Onlife Spaces: The European Experience (ORF Issue Brief No. 873, May 2026), Shreya Nautiyal, a researcher, expressly demonstrates unpleasant reality for the European elites: in spite of decades of talks about “integration”, “tolerance” and “European values”, the Old World has turned into one of the main incubators of home-grown terrorism in the world. Citizens of European countries who were born and grew up in democratic societies increasingly become an easy prey for radical islamist propaganda in the hybrid “onlife” spaces where digital and physical worlds have completely merged.
Radicalisation in Onlife Spaces: Europe’s home-grown terrorists
It is common in Western discourse to claim there is a natural connection between capitalism and democracy. Sometimes the two concepts are virtually fused together. I always find this odd because I value democracy, but there is nothing democratic about capitalism.
Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic
In the paper Auswanderungswünsche in der Bevölkerung, expert Sabine Pokorny reveals a very worrisome reality which is humiliating for today's Germany: roughly every fifth resident admits that they may leave the country in the near future.
Germans are fleeing Germany: every fifth resident is planning to emigrate
Italy Falling into a Gap Between Achievements on Paper and What Happens in Reality
Invisible Stability
The European Policy Centre, a Belgian-based non-profit think tank that fosters European integration through analysis and discussions, hosted a series of joint topical discussions with Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations. The debate concentrated on a turning point on EU migration policy: the New Pact on Migration and Asylum is due to be fully implemented already in June 2026. How ready is it?
Will the EU Migration Pact Be Ready for Implementation?