After losing 25% of its economy to austerity policies, Greece has been suffering in poverty for a decade. Now, starting with a promising idea, the government in Athens aspires to rebuild the country.
The language has changed, the uniforms have changed, but the underlying assumption—that sovereignty is a problem to be managed, not a right to be exercised—remains the same.
The incentives are plain: the CDU/CSU–SPD majority has no reason to risk its power by triggering a recount.
The leak of an alleged plan by the opposition to raise taxes drastically sharpens the contrast between two choices in the April elections.
The conflict pits an older social-paternalist national conservatism against a younger, libertarian-nationalist, anti-system Right.
‘A preferential option for the poor’ is a pithy phrase that hides the complexity of the Church’s social teaching and also the considerations that lead to better outcomes.
It’s time to finally reflect on the difficult legacy of Russian post-communism.
An act of charity turned into a political symbol reveals the ambiguity with which the contemporary Church adopts languages foreign to her tradition.
Rapid gains in living standards had aligned with prudent long-term public spending, but conditions have worsened since 2023.
The danger of 1938 was not too much realism—it was too little. And that is what we risk repeating today, not by negotiating, but by refusing to do so.
Judicial systems across Europe view themselves as guardians of an ideological order that treats populists not as a constituency to be represented but as a pathology to be contained.
The EU should closely review Pakistan’s serious religious freedom violations before extending its preferential trade and tariff benefits to the country.
