Fighting Fake news: lessons from the Nazi propaganda machine
In the battle against fake news, history offers a chilling example. Under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, mass communication was weaponized to spread misinformation, control public opinion, and suppress dissent.
EU Parliament blocks cuts proposed by right-wing governments to youth and research funding
The European Parliament voted on Ursula von der Leyen's new European Commission. The vote also approve the 2025 EU budget, to which the right-wing governments that are members of the EU Council had proposed cuts of €1.52 billion. Democratic MEP Nicola Zingaretti told Fanpage.it: "We have averted the cuts, but we are only at the beginning. This is just a taste of the kind of political battle we will have to wage in the coming years."
Moscow signals retaliation should the US restart nuclear tests
The Kremlin has responded to Donald Trump’s decision to restart American nuclear tests — and is threatening to do the same. Is the world on the brink of a new nuclear arms race?
De-labeling the “Gen Z” protests
The label ‘Gen Z protests’ may be an attractive brand, but it reduces diverse, politically charged mobilizations into a pseudo-demographic narrative. By framing youth uprisings as generational outbursts, media and elites depoliticize them, sidelining the structural inequalities and institutional failures that actually fuel the anger.
Have the intellectuals left the building?
Across Europe, the cult of simplicity is winning over the discipline of thought. Experts are mocked as elitists, while ignorance is rebranded as authenticity. In this new political grammar, thinking itself has become an act of defiance.
The social elevator is stuck
Europe’s social elevator has stalled. The continent that once promised equal opportunity now recycles privilege, locking new generations on the same floors where their parents stood. What was once mobility has become inheritance—an inequality passed down like family silver.
ChatGPT lands in Greek classrooms
Greece’s new “AI in Schools” program introduces ChatGPT Edu as a classroom tool, promising innovation and productivity—but also testing the boundaries of educational autonomy.
The paroxysm of trends and their oblivion
Matcha lattes, Labubu plush toys, Dubai chocolates—tiny obsessions that flare up and vanish before we even grasp what they meant. Our culture now thrives on this rhythm of instant infatuation and rapid forgetting, where fascination burns faster than memory and meaning dissolves at the speed of a scroll.
