The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life
Europe between the Seine and the Tiber
It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
The Catalan gridlock
Catalans are losing their identity as well as their hopes for sovereignty
The genealogy of nuclear fear
How the world turned against nuclear energy and rationalism
The Brazilian solution
How Plano Real defeated inflation
The technological escalation
Will the US semiconductor strategy prevail against China?