• Thu Jun 4 2026
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Magical Thinking Won’t Make Europe an AI Power

BRUSSELS – A new narrative is gaining traction across Europe: the continent can rebuild its technological power by leveraging its longstanding advantages in mechanics, automation, and engineering. Combined with its deep-rooted open-source tradition and next-generation AI models, these assets could make Europe an industrial AI superpower. While this vision is

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Global Cooperation in a Time of Geopolitical Disruption

New cooperative frameworks that deliver on critical but often competing goals – such as energy justice and energy security; both

Financing the Global South’s Infrastructure Boom

India’s experience offers a cautionary tale. Without institutional capacity and financial depth, PPPs can backfire, creating a vicious spiral of

Europe’s Reckoning with Fossil-Fuel Insecurity

Transforming Europe’s energy system requires its leaders to accept that, no matter how much is spent on strengthening the continent’s

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Europe Cannot Avoid an AI Reckoning

The lesson from recent US policy changes is not that Europe should deregulate, but that regulation without hardware, compute, and

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The world is indeed a mess. But defending institutions that have lost their effectiveness and legitimacy is not the answer.

America’s Year of Self-Destruction

Constitutionally protected civil liberties are giving way to comprehensive surveillance and control, administered by private companies like Palantir.