Should I be moving this to Substack? I have a placeholder there into which I imported some of my earlier writings. I also see I have not been writing all that much. Which is the main problem. A new platform could be a motivator. “Do what is important, not what is expedient”, says Jordan Peterson. Tweets are so expedient. Thoughts?

Some large European telecommunication companies would like some sizeable American internet companies to chip in to modernise their digital networks. When people talk about other people’s money, they call it sharing and fair. To get even more sympathy, they use climate goals as the excuse. They expect the European Commission…

Prime Minister Janez Janša, who is under fire in Western media as Slovenia takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, may be clumsy on Twitter but he is not an autocrat, writes Žiga Turk. Žiga Turk, a professor, two-time minister in Slovenia’s government and former…

By Herman Van Rompuy and Žiga Turk The Conference on the Future of Europe is an exercise in democracy, and at the same time, the main theme of the Conference is European democracy. But the problem is broader: democracy itself is in crisis, write Herman Van Rompuy and Žiga Turk. …

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša is the strongest challenger to a status quo in which the left has been in power in the country for too long. Since Janez Janša took over the government of Slovenia this March, the left is in shock that they lost power. Despite COVID, they…

Technological progress is destroying the elites. On the other hand the elites tend to rely on a couple of wrong assumptions about the nature of man. …

The perspective that the Union is a project is holding us back. The Union simply needs to be pragmatic, writes Žiga Turk. Žiga Turk is a professor at the University of Ljubljana. He has served as Slovenia’s minister for growth and was the secretary-general of the Reflection Group on the…

Competition is what makes the world a better place, not intelligent design by God or by bureaucrats. Therefore, protecting competition is one of the key responsibilities of the European Commission. But in the case of Android, it is about to make a huge mistake, writes Žiga Turk. Žiga Turk is…

Fake news have been blamed for the election of Trump, the Brexit vote and the rise of populist parties in Europe. The High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Fake News has been set up to suggest how to address the problem. The Report is the result of the mission of…