Friday, November 21, 2025
Europe likes to present itself as the world’s moral anchor in the age of artificial intelligence. It wants to be the region where technology is shaped by human rights, democratic values and ethical principles rather than by Silicon Valley’s commercial logic or Beijing’s state-driven ambitions. On paper, that is a noble mission. But once you look closely at how Europe actually approaches AI — how laws are made, how member states behave and how uneven the digital landscape truly is — a far more complicated picture emerges.
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Monday, November 17, 2025
Every major technological leap in history has reshaped the world long before society was ready for it. The industrial revolution transformed the way we worked, produced, travelled and lived — but it also brought decades of disruption, dislocation and uncertainty. Not because anyone intended harm, but because the speed of transformation outpaced the ability of people, institutions and governments to adapt.
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Saturday, November 15, 2025
For decades, economic success has been measured through rising GDP, expanding markets and record-high stock valuations. Yet across Europe and much of the world, citizens experience something entirely different: a cost of living crisis, shrinking access to housing, stagnant wages and widening inequality.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
When Warren Buffett wrote what he called his “final shareholder letter”, it felt like more than the end of a career. It marked the closing of a philosophy — one built on patience, human judgment and the belief that true value is found not in numbers, but in character.
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Saturday, November 8, 2025
In the sprawling global chip race, the world tends to focus on the big names: Taiwan’s foundries, American fabless chip-firms, Chinese challengers. But tucked away in the Dutch city of Veldhoven sits a company quietly rewriting the rules: ASML. While many talk about Europe’s lag in semiconductor manufacturing, ASML is living proof that Europe still holds world-beating innovation — not by chasing the same paths as others, but by building the tools that everyone else needs.
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Saturday, November 8, 2025
When people think of Artificial Intelligence, they picture the fast-moving labs of Silicon Valley, where speed, data and capital rule. But on the other side of the Atlantic, a different story is unfolding. Europe — often slower to commercialize — is quietly building an AI ecosystem rooted in ethics, privacy and human values.
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