Quality of Life

Denmark's screen rollback in schools is being sold as a cure for Gen Z overload, but its real significance is simpler: one country has decided that less tech can mean more authority.

A tiny reactor project outside Bratislava is about to push Slovakia past France on nuclear power, just as Europe's neutral states rethink it.

From Spain's wine battle to Tehran's funeral pageantry and Trump's July 4, public ritual is where belief, identity and power perform themselves most visibly in 2026.

Ireland assumes the EU presidency just as a heatwave forces Europe to confront a question its climate politics was not designed to answer: how to keep people cool without abandoning the logic of decarbonisation.

King Charles is not changing the monarchy's doctrine — he is changing its tone, and in an institution that survives by symbolism, that distinction carries real weight.