France has spent 25 years measuring weaknesses in its schools – without finding a convincing way to reverse them. Institut Montaigne argues that PISA 2025 should not become another burst of national alarm followed by another round of reforms and another three years of drift.

Europe thought it could buy migration security by paying authoritarian neighbours to guard its borders. The Ceuta crisis has exposed how fragile that bargain can become.

Europe is getting older – but ageing alone is not the biggest threat to its long-term care systems. Bruegel’s study finds that the real danger is whether Europeans spend those extra years healthy or living with disabilities that require sustained care.

Germany can launch satellites into orbit, attract billions into start-ups and build cutting-edge industries – yet millions of voters still feel the country’s future has nothing to offer them. The National Interest argues that the AfD’s historic victory in Saxony-Anhalt exposes this dangerous split between a Germany reinventing itself and regions still scarred by decades of economic decline.

Britain’s migration row is moving into a more dangerous phase as far-right activists shift their attention from asylum hotels to ordinary residential homes. The report shows vigilantes identifying houses used to accommodate asylum seekers, circulating addresses online and turning local anger into direct intimidation and violence.

The EU’s new Migration and Asylum Pact was supposed to show that Europe had finally built a tougher, clearer and more predictable system. Then Ceuta happened. The EPC analysis argues that the Spanish enclave has become the first real stress test of the post-Pact era – and the early signs are not reassuring.

Germany says it wants to build Europe’s strongest conventional army. The World Politics Review analysis warns that Berlin is still nowhere near proving it can turn that promise into soldiers, units and real wartime capacity.