As demand for critical minerals rises, deep-sea mining is gaining attention as a potential avenue to clean energy. This article breaks down how this process would look in practice—legal requirements, state sponsorship, the role of the International Seabed Authority—while also highlighting the environmental and ethical risks involved. From fragile ecosystems and sediment plumes to uncertainties around carbon storage and global governance, deep-sea mining is far from a straightforward solution, but rather a contested and still largely uncertain frontier.

Morocco has emerged over the past years as an increasingly hostile and assertive actor in North Africa, adopting a foreign policy agenda marked by territorial ambitions, colonial control and hybrid threats and coercion against Spain–and by extension–against Europe. European indecision and existing energy dependency has emboldened Rabat, which also conducts espionage targeting Spanish government officials. Taken together, Morocco’s expansionist aims, colonial practices and hybrid tactics represent a strategic threat to Europe’s southern flank, a deeply underestimated threat that seems to follow Moscow’s playbook.

If universities reward merit alone, why are professors still overwhelmingly white and male? This article reviews the leading justifications for affirmative action and argues that commonly cited rationales fall short. It instead defends a corrective framework, presenting affirmative action as a tool to restore meritocracy by addressing systemic, often tacit, forms of prejudice that undervalue the work of women and racial minorities. The illustration below contains the most common names of authors published in the top 5 economics journals between 2005 and 2020.