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Historically, services expanded precisely because human labor was needed to navigate informational asymmetries — such as those between patients and doctors, consumers and retailers or clients and legal advisors.Today, algorithmic systems can increasingly automate these tasks, diagnosing conditions, matching supply and demand and optimizing legal and financial transactions.

Are we navigating the end of the market era?

We are entering a data-driven world where democratic governance struggles to catch up with the hybridization of power between states, platforms and private data monopolies

This new U.S. budget law — and other accompanying acts by which the Trump administration tears the fabric of American society apart along color lines — underscore the fact that he and his team aims to bring about a wholesale reversal of the American social contract — weak as it has long been.

Donald Trump Vs. Pope Leo XIV: A Tale of Two Americans

What should Pope Leo XIV say about Trump’s draconian “One Big Beautiful Bill”?

Marine Le Pen is leading calls for a new dissolution of the National Assembly, which under the constitution is now possible. No second dissolution was allowed within a year of the first which meant that until July there was no way out of the parliamentary impasse.

France heads for political crisis as PM Bayrou risks all on confidence vote

France is on the brink of another political crisis, after Prime Minister François Bayrou’s shock decision to submit his government to a vote of confidence in parliament

The investment climate deteriorated and, in a 19th century kind of way, Russia became an exporter of its vast array of raw materials to the world’s leading industrial nations. With one notable difference: It was Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin — and not foreign powers — who turned Russia into a colonial object.

How Russia botched an entire century

Were it not for Putin mindlessly continuing the (self-)destructive legacy of the Bolsheviks a century ago, Russia could have been a true 21st century superpower

Bayrou runs the risk of having his budget for next year voted down in the parliament (the Assemblée Generale), which will cause the collapse of his minority government. The embattled centrist prime minister has only been in the job since December, following on the short-lived premiership of Michel Barnier.

PM Francois Bayrou’s ‘moment de verite’

France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou has proposed cutting two public holidays as part of a 2026 budget proposal to slash overall spending

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Thai agribusiness groups, for example, have used partnerships to secure technology and market access while preserving decisive family influence. In Africa and Brazil, several industrial families have relied on temporary instruments such as preference shares, which allow them to raise capital and still reclaim full control once expansion pays off. The lesson is clear: external resources can accelerate ambition, provided the family sets the terms.

Analyses

The Next Chapter: Governance and Growth for Global South families

Friday, August 29, 2025

In much of the Global South, family-owned businesses are not a side story

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French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s instinct to set up what’s now called “the coalition of the willing” to prepare security guarantees for Ukraine was the right one. But it has fallen short. Too many European countries are still paralyzed out of acting militarily in the absence of U.S. involvement. And the few who aren’t, keep repeating like a mantra that they wouldn’t deploy troops before a ceasefire, which is all the motivation Putin needs to scupper any such deal.

World

Europe’s summer of Trump delusion

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Despite a shifting global order, Europe keeps playing by the old handbook. To become a truly geopolitical power, the EU and its member states must assert their economic and military strength both in trade negotiations and on the Ukrainian battlefield

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Creeping annexation of the West Bank and resettling Gaza is nightmarish from a security perspective, morally calamitous and internationally isolating, turning Israel into a pariah.The third option, which is a single democratic state, will never be accepted by you, given the demographic equation and the prospect of Israel losing its control and ceasing to be a Jewish state.

Analyses

Seizing the global momentum for a two-state solution

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Israel, Palestine and the U.S. must act on global momentum for a Palestinian state.

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Reinforcing institutional safeguards — such as judicial independence, electoral integrity and legislative oversight — is equally vital. The EU’s pressure on Poland and Hungary demonstrates that progress is possible with sufficient political will.Finally, enhancing political literacy helps citizens see through demagoguery and distinguish empty slogans from substantive policy, making them less susceptible to authoritarian appeals.

Analyses

Reclaiming democracy: The dangerous playbook of modern populists

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Though populism can, in theory, amplify marginalized voices and energize democracy, it often becomes a tool for weakening democratic institutions

To live up to that challenge, Europe should urgently fix its diplomatic craftsmanship. There has been too much talk and too little action. On the crises in its most immediate surroundings, Europeans need to finally put skin in the game to earn a seat at the table. In Ukraine, it means substantially enhancing its military assistance to Kyiv while at the same time starting to discuss the parameters of a future peace settlement and the security order in Europe.

Analyses

Reinventing European Diplomacy

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

By yielding to U.S. demands, Europeans risk becoming geopolitically obsolete. To be influential in the changing post–1945 order, Europe must enhance its diplomacy by upholding universal rights and values while meeting the needs of nations from the Global South

This undeniable fiscal reality is often concealed by claiming that whatever the problem may be, it can easily be solved by just having “the wealthy” pay more into the system or including civil servants to finance it.But that would only buy a little time, because the problem is much bigger than that. Including new groups would exacerbate the problems, because in the future even more benefit recipients would have to be supported by fewer and fewer contributors.

Analyses

Dateline Germany: Why pension reform is key to stabilizing democracy

Friday, July 18, 2025

Why have young people not yet rebelled, organized themselves and gone on strike on the missing public pension reforms?

The EU is capable of sudden and profound shifts once it commits to specific objectives. It is also capable of acting with determination. It created the Schengen Area for passport-free movement for citizens of many European states and managed to hold onto and even enlarge that area despite the 2015 migration crisis.

World

Betting on Europe

Thursday, July 17, 2025

The rift between Brussels and Washington raises questions about which side will emerge stronger. The Europeans are laying the groundwork to enhance their power and have already proved their ability to withstand epochal change

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First, it must continue building renewables and make full use of the revolutionary potential of electric vehicles and battery storage. If we want to go fast, we must make it much easier to build clean projects like wind or power lines, or indeed industrial facilities like battery factories or processing plants. In fact, the 2040 plan should be an electrification action plan as much as a climate strategy. 

Europe

Europe’s 2040 climate target isn’t just for environmentalists

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Europe can’t decarbonise the world on its own. But it must develop policies that work so that other nations can copy and adapt them

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"There were moments last week where I believe it was almost palpable that there was an agreement nearly in place, and really what needs to happen in the hours and days ahead is a renewed effort to arrive at an agreement that can protect jobs, can protect economic stability in Ireland, in Europe and in the United States."

World

US-EU framework trade deal was ’tantalisingly close’

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

A framework agreement on trade between the United States and the European Union (EU) was "tantalisingly close" before US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% tariffs on imports from the EU, Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Harris has said

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Nevertheless, these developments have not girded their loins. Spooked by Trump’s brutality, unpredictability, and volatility, Europeans have sought to placate him with promises to spend vast amounts of their scarce euros on American products. This will come at the expense of building more European security of supply and more industrial capacity—and hence more sovereignty and autonomy—while Washington regularly proves it is no longer as reliable as it once was.

World

EU’s claim to geopolitical power isn’t passing the Trump test

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Europe has become more dependent on the United States to appease Trump. To assert itself as a true geopolitical force, the EU must deepen ties with partners who value its reliable and diplomatic approach

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The U.S. government is already running a lot of red ink, with a projected $1.9 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2025. However, the Trump tax cuts will increase the total deficit by 20% over the next 10 years.To put these numbers in perspective, in 2016, just nine years ago — before Trump’s first time in the White House — the federal deficit was a mere $500 billion. After Trump passed his tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals in 2017, the deficit jumped 80% to about $900 billion in one year. Although Congress increased spending on some programs, the tax cuts were the main driver.

Analyses

Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich

Monday, July 14, 2025

Trump’s massive tax cuts are designed to wreak havoc in the already feeble social fabric of the United States

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In a Europe short on heavyweight leadership, Meloni is emerging as the continent’s most potent political figure. Once dismissed as a fringe nationalist, Italy’s prime minister now holds a powerful position both at home and abroad, while her counterparts in France, Germany, Spain and the UK falter, building momentum and a reputation as the EU’s most stable and strategic player.

Analyses

Georgia Meloni: The lady of the hour

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

In a Europe short of leaders, the Italian Prime Minister is now fast emerging as the continent’s most influential leader.

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EU Actually

Von der Leyen wants an astronomical EU budget of 2 trillion euros

N. Peter KramerBy: N. Peter Kramer

The European Commission led by its president, Ursula von der Leyen, has once again shown its complete indifference to the economic situation in the EU member states

Europe

France heads for political crisis as PM Bayrou risks all on confidence vote

France heads for political crisis as PM Bayrou risks all on confidence vote

France is on the brink of another political crisis, after Prime Minister François Bayrou’s shock decision to submit his government to a vote of confidence in parliament

Business

To save the Single Market, bring back Delors’ 1992 playbook

To save the Single Market, bring back Delors’ 1992 playbook

Most people familiar with EU affairs know the single market is a myth. Hailed as the bedrock of the European Union, it was never completed and is now crumbling.

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