Lagarde as Europe’s Moral Compass

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

As Europe’s political leadership fragments, the ECB has become the last institution still capable of long-term system thinking. In this essay, Christine Lagarde emerges not as a technocrat, but as Europe’s reluctant strategic conscience.

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Mario Draghi’s Uncomfortable Truth

Friday, January 16, 2026
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For more than a year, Europe has been debating competitiveness, investment and strategic autonomy. At the centre of that debate stands Mario Draghi — not as a politician, but as a system thinker with rare institutional authority.

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