“There is life after this motion,” said Sorin Grindeanu, the interim leader of Romania’s Social Democratic Party, after Parliament voted to bring down Ilie Bolojan’s government. He meant it as reassurance. In Romania, reassurance often sounds like something said over a body that is still warm. The no-confidence motion, initiated by PSD together with the far-right AUR, passed with 281 votes, collapsing a government that had been built less than a year earlier to stabilise the

Inflation in the Eurozone has surpassed the ECB’s 2% target, reaching 2,5%. The increase was driven mainly by higher energy prices and was smaller than markets had expected. Still, trade disruptions caused by the closing of the Strait of Hormuz are pushing up fuel costs for European consumers. “The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”. This is how the International Energy Agency described the effects of

At the beginning of 2026 Space X applied to the Federal Communication Commission to introduce orbital data centers in the next years. This plan is estimated to lead to the launch of roughly one million satellites in a year. On April 1 st , the NASA successfully sent four astronauts out of the Earth’s orbit on a trajectory that takes the crew around the Moon’s far side and returns them to their starting point. The question that arises spontaneously is: where does Europe stan

Context " For years, the European Union believed that its economic size, with 450 million consumers, brought with it geopolitical power and influence in international trade relations. This year will be remembered as the year in which this illusion evaporated ." said Mario Draghi during the Rimini Meeting on 22nd August 2025. In order to grasp what Draghi was referring to, one should think about the international environment in which Europe operates nowadays. The Russian invas