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Europe’s banks are happy with risk-averse customers. Their own healthy profits come from re-investing low-interest deposits into more profitable activities. Being risk-averse themselves, they starve small and medium-sized companies of loans, and this year have begun squeezing credit even tighter. The EU Commission is trying to encourage a shift into investment of the €10tn in cash held by the big retail banks, but it’s an uphill struggle.

The EU’s zig-zag road towards stronger financial markets

Giles Merritt delves into the confusing welter of efforts to streamline Europe’s national financial players into a more dynamic single capital market

In 2027, two Austrian states – Tyrol and Upper Austria – will hold their next elections and votes there are typically influenced by national political trends. If public sentiment toward the government doesn’t improve significantly by then, the ruling parties could face serious internal turmoil.

Vienna calling: Austria far right gathers strength after near miss

To thwart the FPÖ’s steady rise, the Austrian government tries to play the long game

The immigration issue had been one of Trump’s political strengths, but his enforcement surge in Minneapolis, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two American citizens by federal agents, has significantly eroded his standing.

Trump issues patriotic rallying cry with eye on crucial elections

Donald Trump delivered a combative State of the Union address on Tuesday night that hailed what he said was an American "turnaround for the ages".

The saga of the Future Combat Air System between France and Germany shows that both of these middle powers still have a lot to learn in this regard. Germany continues to be torn between wanting to preserve whatever crumbs of its defense relationship with the United States are left, and a still-theoretical understanding that it must use its economic might to supercharge European defense. France, meanwhile, is wary that Berlin’s increasing assertiveness in strategic and defense matters is happening at Paris’s expense.

Macron Makes France a Great Middle Power

France has stopped clinging to notions of being a great power and is embracing the middle power moment. But Emmanuel Macron has his work cut out if he is to secure his country’s global standing before his term in office ends.

AI disruption is unlikely to manifest as sudden mass redundancy. It is more likely to take the form of incremental task substitution and workflow automation that progressively reduce the scope of existing roles. Jobs would be hollowed out before being eliminated, creating prolonged insecurity rather than immediate unemployment.

How the EU Can Survive the AI Labor Transition

Integrating AI into the workplace will increase job insecurity, fundamentally reshaping labor markets. To anticipate and manage this transition, the EU must build public trust, provide training infrastructures, and establish social protections.

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