Technological breakthroughs do not automatically deliver shared prosperity. As AI transforms our economies and societies, the institutions we build today will help determine whether its gains are widely shared.
Valeria Cirillo, Dario Guarascio, Fosca Giannotti, Clara Punzi and Roberto Pellungrini
The most precarious group grew from two to 54 per cent of Italy’s platform workforce in three years.
Washington has sanctioned nine of the court’s 18 judges and now threatens the institution itself, yet Brussels hesitates.
Gregory Jackson, Julia Bartosch and Manuel Nicklich
Twelve thousand Duisburg steelworkers marched for green steel: employee voice can accelerate transition rather than block it.
Nearly 96 per cent of Montenegro’s businesses are micro enterprises, and Europe’s AI evidence base barely sees them.
Four parties backed a ban on headscarves for girls under 14, and a child pays the price.
Five years among the men at Turin’s factory wall reveal what 44 million furlough hours conceal.
Trump’s new map swallows Iceland, yet Icelanders have just voted against reopening membership talks with Brussels.
Claes-Mikael Ståhl and Andrew Watt
Four changes – from enforceable labour rights to seats in the boardroom – would restore democratic legitimacy to open economies.
Hizb ut-Tahrir’s founder called Western values purely utilitarian; Europe’s institutions are struggling to prove him wrong.
Only four EU trade agreements since 2022 allow any sanction for breaking labour and climate commitments.
Around 1,200 OpenAI agents built themselves a messaging system, and every step towards it was individually rational.
In El Ejido a third of residents are foreign, and Vox still more than doubled its regional score.
The agents hacked a global platform to hide their cheating from a scorer that did not exist.
Steel and chemical plants cannot wait 10 years for cheap power, and the Industrial Accelerator Act needs teeth.
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