Sociology has not surrendered its public voice to philosophy. It has lost the illusion that it speaks from nowhere.

Europe spends €2 trillion a year buying goods and services; treating that money as mere book-keeping squanders a decisive ...

Austerity packages reduce approval, drive protests, and raise the odds of a government crisis — especially in downturns.

In short, Europe is not just facing a trade conflict; it is confronting a more transactional and coercive international ...

Ideology has become the political slur of the right against the left, the reproach the sober pragmatists hurl at the vain ...

As Washington turns transactional and Beijing rises, Europe must convert its economic weight into genuine strategic power.

There has been a revolutionary transformation of capitalism, the western economic system, in just over a decade. Four extraordinary events have demonstrated that, in most countries, the relationship ...

Sabine Stephan is a senior economist at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, where she ...

Macroeconomic indicators suggest a continent on the mend. Inflation has been close to the 2 per cent target, and labour markets across the European Union remain remarkably resilient. Yet, the findings ...

Paul Stewart is Emeritus Professor (Grenoble University) and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Sociological Research (KU ...

Robin Wilson: In writing a book like Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe, you are obviously highlighting how the literature on the welfare state has often been, in your assessment, ...

This text is a translated transcript of a lecture delievred at the Siemens Foundationon on 19 November 2025. The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered, among other things, a belated recognition among ...