Transform! Europe

Following the inconclusive March parliamentary elections, Denmark emerged from two months of political deadlock with a new government, featuring a majority of women for the first time. Supported by the left, the four-party centre-left coalition aims for historic agricultural reforms and social measures, while maintaining a firm, established stance on security and geopolitics.

Sustainability and peace are inseparable. To solve the climate crisis, we must address the massive environmental costs of warfare and choose diplomacy for peace. The Agenda 2030 states a simple truth: There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development.

Trapped in a violent collision between external war and internal uprising, the Islamic Republic faces a transformation that could reshape the entire region. At the time of writing, a fragile ceasefire holds, though its stability remains uncertain. Whether it marks the end of the war or merely a moment to breathe remains unclear. What is already evident, however, is that this conflict cannot be understood solely in military terms.

On 21 May, the first NATO summit on Swedish soil will take place in the small city of Helsingborg. While there are several protests planned, the general political situation in Sweden is disheartening. Informal Meeting, Informal Resistance The city of Helsingborg is proud. In official channels they boast about hosting the summit, stating that “more than 1000 delegates, officials, security experts and journalists” will meet to discuss “the security of the future”.

Is the Catholic Church becoming the new backbone of the global anti-war movement? From confronting Trumpism to advocating for nuclear disarmament, Pope Leo XIV is determined to keep the anti-war and pro-peace flags flying high. This article explores the clear stance of the head of the Catholic Church as well as a dynamic current within it, resisting a new wave of imperialism.

A sharp intervention in AI debates, combining Aristotle and Marx to rethink automation, technology, and the conditions for meaningful human flourishing under digital capitalism. Why We Need Aristotle and Marx Together Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism: AI, Automation, Alienation (Bloomsbury, 2025) emerges from a three-year research project at the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius.

“Corporatocracy is NOT a dirty word.” This is the sentence that opens an editorial in Modern Business Review, which an attentive player can find in the video game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The game is almost ten years old, and interestingly, a large part of its story takes place in a futuristic Prague, where the streets are controlled by the Georgian mafia and high politics are increasingly dominated by multinational corporations.

Taxing the super-rich is back on the agenda. But tackling inequality requires more than that. Moving beyond slogans, this article explores why taxation needs to be reclaimed as a means of collective protection. A self-evident policy turned into a radical demand “Tax the (super-)rich”. A statement that should be self-evident is nowadays considered a radical demand and attacked not only by the super-rich[1] but also by the majority of mainstream politicians and economists.

Wealth inequality is accelerating across Europe. This article argues that only a high, progressive and properly designed wealth tax can meaningfully reduce it and explains why other forms of assets taxation fall short. The recent history of the German wealth tax is peculiar. In 1995, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the wealth tax violated the principle of equality because different types of assets were treated differently.

Housing in Spain is increasingly shaped by rentier dynamics. This article explores how property ownership drives inequality and why taxation must play a central role. One of the great problems currently facing developed countries is access to housing. In Spain, 24% of the population considers it the country’s foremost problem, whilst up to 43% place it among the top three.