Europe still talks like a rule-maker in a world increasingly shaped by bargaining, competing powers and countries determined to choose their own partners. DIIS argues that the shift to multipolarity is exposing a serious weakness in European foreign policy – the assumption that European priorities and values will automatically carry universal authority.

Europe creates innovative companies but is struggling to keep them when they need serious money to grow. CER’s policy brief finds a stock-market system losing ground to the US – fragmented exchanges, weak equity investment and too few large companies capable of delivering heavyweight IPOs.

Hungary is undergoing its biggest political overhaul since Viktor Orbán and Fidesz took power in 2010. OSW’s assessment finds that Péter Magyar has used a two-thirds majority and exceptionally strong public support to tear into the institutional system built during 16 years of Fidesz rule, restore ties with Brussels and pull Hungary back towards the Western mainstream.

Germany’s reputation for predictable, consensus-driven politics is taking a serious hit. The AfD’s 43.8 per cent victory in Saxony-Anhalt more than doubled its 2021 vote and left it only three seats short of an absolute majority.

Europe thought it could buy migration security by paying authoritarian neighbours to guard its borders. The Ceuta crisis has exposed how fragile that bargain can become.

Germany’s political establishment has been hit by a result it can no longer easily contain. The AfD took just under 44 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt, leaving the CDU languishing at just over 17 per cent and putting the nationalist-populist party only three seats short of a majority.

Germany’s post-war political order has taken another heavy blow. The AfD won 43.9 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt, crushing Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU on just 17.4 per cent and coming within three seats of an outright majority.