https://jochum.dev/en/tags/european-politics/ Recent content in European Politics on jochum.dev https://jochum.dev/images/20260503-me.jpg https://jochum.dev/images/20260503-me.jpg Hugo en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jochum.dev/en/politics/20260428-europe-2.0/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jochum.dev/en/politics/20260428-europe-2.0/ <p>Europe 1.0 was an economic project and a peace project. That was not wrong. It was just unfinished.</p> <p>A market was built and the hope was that politics would follow. It did not follow. Now people experience Brussels as regulation — but not as democracy. That is not a communication problem. That is a design flaw.</p> <blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Independent journalism is an anchor in a world that is increasingly difficult to see through.&rdquo;</p> https://jochum.dev/en/politics/20260428-the-seven-romans/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jochum.dev/en/politics/20260428-the-seven-romans/ <p>Europe does not have a leadership problem. It has a construction problem.</p> <p>Ursula von der Leyen is not the problem. The system that produced her is the problem. Appointed, not elected. Accountable to bodies that no one can name. A face without a mandate.</p> <p>This is not a communication problem. It is written into the treaties.</p> <h2 id="who-to-call">Who to Call</h2> <p>Henry Kissinger asked it fifty years ago: what number do I dial when I want to call Europe?</p>