Mid-to-long-form investigative Journalism.
How do you know you are living in dangerous times? Is it the hysterical headlines in the news? Hardly, the news is always dramatising everything that happens around us. Dangerous times are times when the stability and balance of international norms and institutions are threatened. What truly determines the danger of our time is the […]
Humanity is plagued by existential threats. Threats, it seems we cannot overcome. Whether it is an asteroid that could hit the Earth at any time, wiping out all life, supergerms for which there are no cure, space lightning that can incinerate a whole galaxy in an instant, or the ever advancing changes to our climate, […]
‘Together with a nuclear power share of ca. 15%, [renewable energy sources] will be the backbone of a carbon-free European power system.’ This sentence from the European Commission’s strategic vision for climate-neutrality by 2050, A Clean Planet for All (2018), concisely summarises the argument put forward in this article. Nuclear energy has a crucial role […]
The European Union wants to become climate-neutral by 2050. To this end, a vast variety of legislative goals from the European Green Deal to a “comprehensive plan” to cut EU emissions by at least 55% by 2030 have been proposed by the Commission’s President-elect Ursula von der Leyen, while some 25-30% of the EU’s 2021-2027 […]
The European elections are over and the results are a spectacular surprise. The final results will be published in a few days, but while parties might gain or lose a few points, it won’t affect the overall seat allocation in the European Parliament (EP). As such, we can already take a closer look at these […]
With the prophetic words of “opening a new chapter for Europe”, the EPP builds its manifesto around four catchphrases. Whether political soundness and coherence follow those, is more debatable. Spitzenkandidat for the party Manfred Weber, has little chance of actually following Jean-Claude Juncker next year, as the national heads of government favour Michel Barnier or […]
Another edition for the beady eyed followers of European politics and the current Spitzenkandidaten race for the EU Commission president. This time, we look at the centre–left liberal candidate – Margarethe Vestager – leading the charge for ALDE. A pragmatic and well-respected politician on the European stage: is it just what Europe needs now, or […]
Following our previous analysis of the Social Democrats, we are now taking a look at the ECR group, (European Conservatives and Reformists). In case you are not aware, the ECR is what some consider the bad brother of the EPP (European People’s Party). The ECR consists primarily of conservative parties that are less pro-European than […]
The political European election campaigns are in full swing and each Spitzenkandidat is trying their best to generate as much media attention as possible in a national-dominated media landscape that pays little to no heed to anything they say. As a result, their statements and claims become increasingly boastful and extreme, in the hopes of […]
Over the last three articles we have explored big societal changes that are occurring right now, as well as those that we still have to initiate ourselves, but that will inevitably have to be implemented. In this final article, we ask ourselves: what drives all these changes and can and/or should we stop them? One […]