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Philippe Aghion

6 December 2021

Your most recent book finds that creative destruction has lifted our societies to unimaginable levels of prosperity. How does it work? Philippe Aghion: The paradigm of creative destruction is used to explain a number of economic puzzles, starting with industrial take-off. Growth is a...

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1 July 2025

The Schuman Report on Europe, State of the Union 2025 is now available! This 16th edition highlights the European Union's strategic acceleration in the face of global upheaval and its projection into a new phase of its history. Twenty-one contributions from experts provide a relevant analysis of the major issues of our time. Enriched with maps and annotated statistics, the Schuman Report 2025 is an indispensable tool for understanding the multidimensional challenges facing contemporary Europe. The ebook is available on the websites of the Robert Schuman Foundation and major bookshops.

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Corinne Deloy

7 October 2025

The Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO, which means ‘yes’ in Czech), the populist party of former Prime Minister (2017-2021) Andrej Babis, won a landslide victory in the general election on 3 and 4 October 2025. ANO garnered 34.52% of the vote and took 80 seats, an increase of eight...

Strategy, Security and Defence

 
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Nicolas-Jean Brehon

9 September 2025

This article follows on from an initial analysis of European support for the defence industry, published in February 2025 by the Foundation. The focus was on the European Defence Fund (EDF). Given the interest in this subject and the importance of military issues in the European debate, a regular...

Elections in Europe

 
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Corinne Deloy

7 October 2025

The Dutch are being called to the polls on 29 October to elect the 150 members of the Second Chamber (Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal), the lower house of parliament. The general elections are being held two years early, following the departure of Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) from the...

Future and outlook

 
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9 November 2024

since one year, the Schuman Network, an initiative of the Foundation, is working to promote the sharing of ideas on a European scale. With 21 members from 13 European countries, the Schuman Network is a forum to pool research on current European issues. Since its launch, over 130 studies have been published.

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In democracies, the accumulation of complex rules is one of the sources of citizen discontent. However, laws, political language and rules for living together must be understood by all. Keeping things simple certainly requires more work, but first and foremost it requires common sense. National governments and European institutions would be well advised to declare a 'regulatory moratorium' to examine the merits and scope of the rules they adopt. 'Why make things simple when you can make them complicated'!

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Democracy and citizenship

 
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Florent Parmentier

23 September 2025

On 9 September, addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Moldovan President Maia Sandu delivered a truly existential plea. ‘If our democracy cannot be protected, then no democracy in Europe is safe,’ she insisted. Beyond diplomatic rhetoric, the Moldovan president was appealing...

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Jean-Marc Vigilant

16 September 2025

After five centuries of Western global domination, we are living in a period of geopolitical change of the same magnitude as the end of the Cold War. Because European empires nearly destroyed themselves during the two World Wars of the 20th century, they established, under the impetus of the United...

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