In the media

“France is France – but France is also Europe.” In an opinion piece for Racin.mk, László Andor, Secretary General of FEPS, argues that France’s youth protests, set against a latent budget crisis and growing precarity (schools, housing), risk benefiting Marine Le Pen, and that France, despite bending the EU’s fiscal rules, has also propped up European growth.

“La Regina: territorial disparities are a European issue” News article published by ANSA (IT), featuring Raffaele La Regina, participant in the FEPS Young Academics Network, discussing territorial and social inequalities across Europe, the need to reconcile competitiveness and cohesion, and the role of European cohesion policy, industrial policy and investment in ensuring that no region is left behind.

“Von der Leyen’s Canadian gambit” Opinion article by László Andor, FEPS Secretary General, published in Racin.mk (MK), analysing the EU’s growing rapprochement with Canada, the shift from geopolitics towards geoeconomics, and the need for Europe to reduce its dependence on the US while strengthening multilateralism. Andor also examines the Commission’s economic and social priorities, highlighting the need for stronger attention to living costs, labour and social policy.

“Security policy? That’s NATO’s job – former EU Commissioners assess Ursula von der Leyen’s speech”. Article published in Telex (HU), featuring László Andor, FEPS Secretary General, analysing Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union address and discussing Europe’s economic competitiveness, investment gap, strategic vulnerabilities, AI, migration and the EU’s changing geopolitical position.

FEPS Director for Research and Training Ania Skrzypek discusses the State of the European Union 2026 speech with TOK FM

"Strong but divided: the European far right faces a decisive election year" in the Catalan newspaper Diari ARA, Secretary General László Andor comments AFD victory in Saxony-Anhalt, ahead of key elections to take place across the EU.

"The end of free trade and the era of economic warfare" Read this article by FEPS Secretary General László Andor on the far-reaching repercussions from the terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, notably for the international economy.

Article by FEPS Secretary General, László Andor, examining Andy Burnham’s break with Thatcherism and what it could mean for progressive politics across Europe, linking neoliberalism to inequality, deindustrialisation and weakened public services, and arguing for a more transformative progressive agenda centred on industrial policy, public investment and a renewed social democratic vision for Europe