European Union

Pronounced dead upon Ursula von der Leyen’s election as Commission president in 2019, the “Spitzenkandidaten” process is alive and well.

The profit-maximisation-centered market economy does not work for all. A well-being economy could.

Progressives in southern Europe need to find unity in fragmentation, following the Spanish example.

Despite the disruptions to the European grain market caused by the war, Ukraine remains one of the world’s leading grain exporters.

Climate finance is on the rise, but it is still nowhere near the scale needed to cover climate impacts and fund the global green transition.

Ireland, a prosperous Western European nation with a sordid past of colonial subjugation, is in a unique position when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Luiza Medeleanu on the history and visions for the future of Europe’s largest ethnic minority.

In a dispatch from 2050, Molly Scott Cato reports that the UK’s divorce from the EU did not last long.

Aleksandra Savanović wonders at what point we stopped imagining better worlds.

Forged in the depths of systematic oppression, the Kosovars’ staunch support for the EU reflects their desire for democracy. The bloc should stop using it as a bargaining chip.