‘A high-risk gamble’ is what reputed economist Jean Pisani-Ferry calls the EU’s recovery fund: it could make a real difference… but failure is certainly still an option. I’m afraid I agree, and it will all depend on how Next Generation EU is set up and governed. There is always a…

The sad truth is, there are all too many people around the world right now who would merit the Sakharov prize. Human Rights Watch sees a global downturn in terms of rights and liberties, purposely led by what it calls the ‘Chinese template for a prosperous dictatorship’. In Europe’s immediate…

‘It is easier to make sweeping generalisations about others if we know close to nothing about them; if they remain an abstraction’, writes Elif Shafak in The Guardian. So much of the friction in societies starts with a total lack of interest in other people — in denying other people’s…

So the Polish government is asking its constitutional court to examine the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, which has everyone speculating: is it a strategic maneuver, a countermove against the indignation they met with this week? Are they backtracking or just playing for time? Whatever it is­ — few…

Hardly a day goes by without a scandal involving social media companies. This week, we found out Twitter used its data to track celebrities like Beyoncé, two weeks ago some of the biggest names on the planet got hacked. …