Europe shares a market, a currency and increasingly interconnected infrastructures. Yet beneath that economic integration remain profound regional differences in wealth, opportunity, productivity and social stability. Economic Europe explores whether unequal economies can truly sustain one shared political and societal future.
Featured Stories
Featured Stories bring together articles, analysis and commentary around the themes that define the Altair Media editorial scope. Explore key topics, companies and developments shaping infrastructure, technology, markets and the broader global landscape.
Europe is entering a new phase of technological and societal transformation. The European Architecture explores how infrastructure, finance, AI, culture and democratic legitimacy can be reconnected in a human-centred vision for Europe’s digital future and long-term social resilience.
Does something like a European truly exist? In this series, we explore how people across the continent see themselves—through work, income, identity and place—and what these portraits reveal about a Europe that is shared, yet never the same.
Europe’s financial system is built to safeguard stability — but increasingly struggles to direct capital where it matters. As regulation tightens and AI reshapes decision-making, the question is no longer how money moves, but who controls its logic.
Europe is not leading the quantum race in headlines—but it may be shaping its foundations. Beneath the noise of global tech rivalry, a quieter strategy is emerging: one built on infrastructure, collaboration and long-term control over computation.
Blue light is emerging as the next frontier in chip technology. As photonics moves beyond infrared, new materials and architectures are redefining what chips can do—shifting from data transport toward precision, sensing and interaction with the physical world.
