Liberal Europe Blog

The challenge in front of us is to rebuild the social foundations that allow people to trust one another, form relationships, and find a path for a shared future together.

The European Commission has published three interconnected proposals that aim to enable Europeans to book and travel by train more easily. These regulations tackle fragmentation in the railway market whilst promoting competition and sustainability. Together, they represent a distinctly liberal approach: removing barriers, empowering consumers, and tackling market gatekeeping.  

Europe’s unanimity rule is increasingly turning strategic decision-making into political paralysis. The concept of a “pooled veto” offers an alternative approach, preserving safeguards for national interests while preventing single governments from obstructing decisions that affect the entire Union

Key pillars EU policymaking should uphold in the coming years: competitiveness, strategic autonomy, and security. But it is difficult to talk about European competitiveness if it is primarily driven by non-EU companies.

Iranian society today is wounded, frightened, yet politically alive and hopeful. Europe’s task is not to speak over it, contain it, or reduce it to a security problem. It is to recognize that the Iranian people are the real democratic actors in this story.  

Europe Shouldn’t Miss the Next Tech Wave

Politicians should take actual responsibility and ban addictive social media platform use for young minors.

We spoke with young people at the American University on Armenia’s future prospect of EU membership, with civil society on the role of the EU and reforms still to be made, and with women leaders on how to build inclusive organisations. 

Yugoslavia’s collapse shows that unresolved economic imbalances and weakened solidarity eventually become political and security crises a warning for the EU to reform early and anchor integration firmly in liberal democracy

For many years, space policy in Europe was treated as a technocratic domain (for engineers and ESA committees) or a prestige project for national leaders. That’s changing. Now space underpins everything from climate policy, digital infrastructure, and defence.

Europe’s energy transition is gridlocked. Can a €1.2 trillion investment plan come to the rescue? The EU is currently at an important moment in its energy transition. Although a global leader in climate policy, Europe’s electrification and renewable energy integration tends to lag behind other regions, constrained by an ageing and fragmented grid infrastructure.

Italy introduced a new system intended to protect minors from accessing adult content, but its design created widespread confusion about whether SPID digital identification would be required to access such websites.