Geoff Mulgan reimagines the state as a lean, agile force that delivers power without the drag of bureaucracy.

In certain ways, last autumn in the United States recalled the autumn of 1938 in Nazi Germany, when mass deportation of ...

At the end of July, the Frankfurter Rundschau ran an alarming headline: “First country on Earth to become uninhabitable—alarming forecast.” The island nation of Tuvalu in the South Pacific will most ...

After intense negotiations, the European Union institutions have reached a provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act. With the last such trilogue dealing with 21 critical outstanding ...

As the platforms lose case after case over the designation of ‘contractors’ as workers, they are lobbying at European level to win back control. The case was filed last year by FNV (Federatie ...

The tractors have left the European Union’s capital cities for now but mass protests against climate-mitigation measures are bound to recur. Too many people are feeling anxious, insecure, powerless ...

The IRA threatens Europe. This IRA is not the paramilitary organisation which blighted so many of our lives in Ireland, Britain and even mainland Europe. It is the Inflation Reduction Act—embodiment ...

At the end of the Cold War, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a celebrated essay called ‘The end of history?’. Communism’s collapse, he argued, would clear the last obstacle separating ...

Over the past decade or so the euphoria associated with the collapse of communism has turned to pessimism, as many once-promising democracies in eastern Europe have slid into illiberalism and even ...

Far-right parties are becoming increasingly dominant in national settings across many European Union capitals. Whether in election results, such as the success of Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) in ...

The shipwreck near Pylos last June, one of the greatest modern tragedies in Greek waters, claimed more than 600 lives. In its wake, criticism of the operation in Greece of the European Union’s ...

Robin Wilson: In writing a book like Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe, you are obviously highlighting how the literature on the welfare state has often been, in your assessment, ...