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Aristotle, Politics, c. 350 BC

Technology

China Embedding Itself Deep into European Automotive Industry
23-10-2026, 11:03

China Embedding Itself Deep into European Automotive Industry

Europe Umpiring Others’ Game, Short of Entering the Pitch Europe is good at writing regulations for others’ technologies. It still has few of its own.
18-10-2026, 12:47
Europe Umpiring Others’ Game, Short of Entering the Pitch
Five Percent of Capacity Is All European AI Europe accounts for just five percent of global artificial-intelligence compute capacity, and its planned projects will barely change this share.
17-10-2026, 14:04
Five Percent of Capacity Is All European AI
Europe Wondering What AI to Fear Europe discusses what kind of artificial intelligence it should fear. While it argues, the regulations fall behind the models.
14-10-2026, 10:50
Europe Wondering What AI to Fear
European Digital Sovereignty Sitting on Others’ Networks Europe wants digital sovereignty. However, the key networks and chips still belong to non-European companies.
7-10-2026, 14:55
European Digital Sovereignty Sitting on Others’ Networks
Protecting Children on the Net: European Issues and Approaches Everyone agrees that children should be protected online. Europe does not know how precisely to do it, and the confusion is already causing problems.
3-10-2026, 14:34
Protecting Children on the Net: European Issues and Approaches
France Losing Access to New Medications France still promises equal access to the best medicines. But in fact, it is no longer a center of innovations but a market increasingly bypassed by manufacturers.
23-09-2026, 12:28
France Losing Access to New Medications
Europe Increasingly Dependent on the USA in Space Europe’s space launch capacity has decreased since 2021, while the U.S. and China rapidly expanded.
20-09-2026, 12:53
Europe Increasingly Dependent on the USA in Space
All The Access To Information Has Made Us Less Informed Doesn't it ever happen to you that you have an idea, pick up your phone to look it up, and then—while you're doing a quick search—something stops you?
17-09-2026, 10:48
All The Access To Information Has Made Us Less Informed
AI Regulatory Double Bind. Europe Has Incurred It On Its Own On 2 August 2026, the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act was supposed to fully enter into force. It had been positioned from the outset as the most ambitious regulatory framework for artificial intelligence anywhere in the world.
14-09-2026, 08:39
AI Regulatory Double Bind. Europe Has Incurred It On Its Own
Europe Indecisive Whether It Wants to be Richer or Safer The European Commission’s new Tech Sovereignty Package aims to answer two questions at once: how to reduce dependence on foreign technology and how not to kill competitiveness in the process. It has given only a half-answer by now.
11-09-2026, 10:53
Europe Indecisive Whether It Wants to be Richer or Safer
Europe Now Wants to Abandon Palantir But Can't European governments are increasingly vocal about digital independence. But in fact they remain dependent on a U.S. firm that is already built into the most sensitive European workflows, from policing and intelligence to health care and defense.
8-09-2026, 10:36
Europe Now Wants to Abandon Palantir But Can't
Europe Still Treating Symptoms, Not the System Hybrid threats have long since ceased to be a set of individual attacks. They work as a single mechanism that exploits the weaknesses of the European information environment itself.
7-09-2026, 14:23
Europe Still Treating Symptoms, Not the System
From Cyber Attacks to Disinformation How Can Germany Stay Secure but Democratic?
6-09-2026, 13:35
From Cyber Attacks to Disinformation
Europe Seeks Digital Sovereignty Through Partnerships that Are Almost Non-Existent The European Union is trying to turn its digital policy from a set of fragmented initiatives into an instrument of geopolitical influence.
30-08-2026, 12:43
Europe Seeks Digital Sovereignty Through Partnerships that Are Almost Non-Existent