Writings
Notes from the caravan.
Essays on migration, belonging, democracy, Europe, climate, economy — the forces reshaping the century we are still walking into. Organised by the eight questions I keep returning to.
Theme
Governance & Democracy
4 essays
Starting New · Ashoka Participation Hub · 2025
"Out of the Many, One"
A speech on coalition-building as democracy in training — and why dialogue is the discipline of our time.
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Substack · 2025
The War We Do Not Know How to Fight Is Here
On the quiet, cultural war reshaping European democracies from within.
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Accidental European · 2023
Innovating Democracy by Turning the Rubik's Cube
Why democratic renewal requires rotating perspectives, not replacing pieces.
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Accidental European · 2023
The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future: Mass Anxiety and Democracy
On the anxiety underneath our politics — and what it is asking of us.
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Theme
Europe
3 essays
Euractiv · 2024
Schuman's Legacy Deserves Creative Efforts to Address Migration
Reclaiming Europe's founding imagination to meet its defining challenge.
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SINGA · 2024
Unity or Division: The EU's High-Stakes Stance on Migration in a Trump-Led Era
The choice Europe faces when the transatlantic ground shifts beneath it.
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Soara · 2023
Le futur de l'innovation européenne pourrait dépendre d'un visa
Version française — quatre conditions pour l'Europe qui vient.
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