The war between the US and Iran is destabilising North African economies, putting an already fragile region at the very edge of polycrisis
Food security tends to be invisible until it isn’t. Europe is not, on the whole, at risk of mass shortages the way some import-dependent regions are, but the war in Ukraine still delivered a sharp reminder of how exposed even a wealthy, agriculturally productive continent can be — Russia and Ukraine together are major global […]
The next industrial revolution will be built with microbes as much as machines. China understands this. Europe still has the science to compete but must act quickly before industrial leadership slips away again