The Missing Piece of the Euro
Europe runs on payment rails it doesn’t own. The digital euro is the first serious attempt to change that – and the fight over it has already begun. Sofia runs a hair salon in Madrid. On her door, a handwritten sign reads: ‘Cash preferred. Card minimum €10.’ That sign is not a quirk of preference, […]
Could Europe be switched off?
Could Europe Be Switched Off? Someday, Someone could decide to switch Europe off. Not through a dramatic blackout like the one recently seen in Spain — though that offered a glimpse of how fragile complex systems can become under stress. More likely, it would happen quietly. Almost invisibly. No sudden collapse. No warning sirens. Just […]
The Opium War 4.0
As the saying goes, history always repeats itself: first as a tragedy, and later as a farce. The European political debate today is saturated with discussions about free speech – a debate that increasingly appears to pit European governments against the United States’ government and its most prominent supporting tech oligarch, Elon Musk. The script […]