Society
Why capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic
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In the analytical report Radicalisation in Onlife Spaces: The European Experience (ORF Issue Brief No. 873, May 2026), Shreya Nautiyal, a researcher, expressly demonstrates unpleasant reality for the European elites: in spite of decades of talks about “integration”, “tolerance” and “European values”, the Old World has turned into one of the main incubators of home-grown terrorism in the world. Citizens of European countries who were born and grew up in democratic societies increasingly become an easy prey for radical islamist propaganda in the hybrid “onlife” spaces where digital and physical worlds have completely merged.
Radicalisation in Onlife Spaces: Europe’s home-grown terrorists
In the paper Auswanderungswünsche in der Bevölkerung, expert Sabine Pokorny reveals a very worrisome reality which is humiliating for today's Germany: roughly every fifth resident admits that they may leave the country in the near future.
Germans are fleeing Germany: every fifth resident is planning to emigrate
Italy Falling into a Gap Between Achievements on Paper and What Happens in Reality
Invisible Stability
The European Policy Centre, a Belgian-based non-profit think tank that fosters European integration through analysis and discussions, hosted a series of joint topical discussions with Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations. The debate concentrated on a turning point on EU migration policy: the New Pact on Migration and Asylum is due to be fully implemented already in June 2026. How ready is it?
Will the EU Migration Pact Be Ready for Implementation?
Targeted himself by the Israel lobby for antisemitism, Professor John Keane analyses the nature of Zionist revenge.
Zionists, lawfare and the malady called revenge
What Can Blind Replication of U.S. Migration Policy Lead the European Union to?
Europe Is Not America
The European Parliament has endorsed an asylum reform that expands the use of the ‘safe third country’ concept and introduces the European Union’s common list of ‘safe countries of origin’.
Unsafe ‘Safe Countries’ Is the EU Dumping Its Migration Responsibility on Third Countries Again?
Migrant workers play an essential, if not primary, role in the agrifood sector
Migrant Workers and Farming Will They Get a Decent Living and Employment?
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism.
Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism
A permanent citizens’ forum as the fourth branch of governance in the European Union should give citizens greater influence over European politics. This is the argument put forward by the French-Greek-British professor of international relations Kalypso Nicolaidis.
Kalypso Nicolaidis: I Want a Woodstock for European Politics