Having clung to the technologies that built its past fortunes, Europe’s car industry missed the electric revolution. Now, just as the EU considers a tougher stance on Chinese competition, German and European carmakers are teaming up with Chinese companies for cutting-edge components and software. Can Europe protect industrial jobs while catching up on technology?
Read moreAs Turkey prepares to host the world’s largest climate summit in Antalya, its official rhetoric masks a long-running policy of expanding fossil fuel exploration and accelerating nuclear projects under foreign dependency. In this context, COP31 is bound to become yet another greenwashing spectacle. Still, Turkey’s grassroots movement continue to resist the government’s authoritarian push for more extraction, fighting instead for energy democracy and ecological justice.
Read moreWithout workers on board, the energy transition risks losing the social consent it depends on. What would it take to make green jobs good jobs?
Read moreThe key to mobilising climate action is to demonstrate that the green transition can make European countries more secure and people’s lives cheaper.
Read moreThe recent push for tech sovereignty can only succeed if it starts with democratic choice and a shared vision for social and technological progress.
Read moreAs the far right turns economic insecurity into a politics of scarcity and division, the billionaire could spur a different political “we”.
Read moreWith the far right on the rise on both sides of the Channel, closer EU-UK collaboration remains an open question.
Read moreWhile some of the walls that separated us have crumbled, new divides are forming in front of our very eyes.
Read more“The chance to reconcile future abundance with planetary boundaries is perhaps the best news of the century.”
Read moreMorocco once again showed why relying on autocrats to control the EU’s external borders is untenable.
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