A new PROSUM Foundation policy paper argues that Hungary’s emerging defence industrial base should not be dismantled, but strategically consolidated, depoliticised and integrated into NATO and EU defence planning.
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is far more than a motorsport event. It is a technology laboratory, a brand building stage, an industrial stress test and a strategic message to the market. A manufacturer that lines up at Le Mans is not simply trying to win a race. It is trying to prove that its brand is fast, durable, innovative and capable of surviving one of the toughest tests in the automotive world.
One of the greatest paradoxes of the 21st century is that while we have never had so many technological tools designed to make our lives easier, it has perhaps never been so difficult to truly rest. Silence, idleness and stimulus free downtime are no longer natural states, but increasingly rare social privileges.
A mother’s personal testimony about how political rhetoric can become everyday fear — and why changing laws is not enough if the wounds within society remain.
Is the EU ETS Becoming a Competitiveness Trap? The European Union’s climate policy was designed around a clear and ambitious promise: to reduce emissions, accelerate the green transition and place Europe at the forefront of the global low-carbon economy. At the centre of this architecture stands the Emissions Trading System, the EU ETS, often presented as the Union’s flagship market-based climate instrument.
Economic stagnation, Brexit and political fragmentation have left the United Kingdom searching for a new direction.
A Design Award as an Industry Signal. A design award rarely changes the fate of a car on its own. It does not automatically make a model successful, turn a brand into a global force, or prove that a manufacturer can compete in Europe, America or the Middle East in the long run. Yet the iCAUR V23 winning the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2026 means more than a polished marketing line. It is interesting because it points to a broader industrial transformation: Chinese carmaking is gradually moving beyond the era that outsiders long associated with imitation, recycled European and Japanese design cues, and the so-called “copy-paste” logic.
Life in My Chosen Home. There are decisions in life that, even at the moment we make them, we know will not simply open a new chapter, but will cast everything that came before in a different light. For me, moving to the United Kingdom with my family was one of those decisions.
Beyond political slogans, the real question is whether children receive the knowledge, trust and institutional support that can actually keep them safe. While public debate is often dominated by myths about “gender-changing preschoolers” and a vague, threatening “gender lobby”, far too little is said about what truly matters: the actual protection of children. Yet this is not primarily an ideological question. It is a deeply practical one. Are we able to prepare children in a way that helps them stay safe in an increasingly complex world?
As the collapsing Orban era gradually shuts down one pro-government media outlet after another, and Hungary edges closer to becoming a country without a single national printed daily newspaper, something new is arriving.
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