Europe’s fiscal future depends on raising productivity in the workforce, which can rise if men start pulling their weight at home.

Paris and Berlin are sidelined as voters seek change and security at the same time. Brussels will have to step in.

The EU needs more than rules to forge a successful technological future. Its digital policy will serve the bloc better if it stays open and consciously linked to the rest of the world.

The EU’s consensus-driven stumble toward choosing institutional leaders is more democratic than the alternatives.