Europe’s Strategic Compass: Time to act, not react
Europe must act as one to stay competitive and secure. Unity, ambition, and strategic alignment are no longer optional—they're the path to leadership....
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The new limits of growth
In the final article of our series, we explore how businesses face hard planetary and geopolitical limits that make the “business as usual” growth model untenable as climate shocks, biodiversity loss, and...
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Why China is well-equipped to deal with disruption
China’s shift from reaction to reinvention is a long-running transformation built on policy foresight and internal restructuring that global turmoil and the tariffs war have only served to intensify....
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How to survive on PLUTO, a radically different planetÂ
A new framework encourages leaders to see the world as PLUTO – polarized, liquid, unilateral, tense, and omnirelational. It’s time to think differently and embrace stakeholder capitalism....
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Halfway 2025: How to read two quarters under Trump 2.0
July 7, 2025 • by Richard Baldwin in Geopolitics • 2 min read • 
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Daniel Ziblatt: Democracy is dying in “baby steps” – here’s how leaders can push backÂ
Business leaders today should identify their points of leverage – be it public influence, economic power, or industry collaboration – to quietly but effectively push back against policies that undermine democracy, said...
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