Elise Moreau

Brussels | July 2026 Europe has never looked more female at the top, yet the rooms where its survival is negotiated still speak an older …

Europe’s next frontier is not made of concrete or barbed wire. It emerges through databases, biometric records and systems that decide, often silently, whether a …

The most consequential border in Europe may no longer be drawn on a map. Brussels, Belgium | June 2026 Europe has spent much of the …

Some borders no longer need walls. Brussels, May 2026. Europe often speaks the language of human rights while quietly expanding one of the most sophisticated …

Protection is becoming Europe’s most contested word. Brussels, April 2026. Europe has built one of the most sophisticated languages of rights in modern politics. Still, …

Democracy is breaking first through women’s lives. Brussels, April 2026. Europe likes to describe itself as a continent of rights, procedures and moral memory. Yet the …

Europe’s democratic fracture now has a gendered pulse. Brussels, April 2026 Europe keeps describing its democratic crisis in institutional language, as if the problem were …

Crisis strips away the polite fictions first. Paris, April 2026 Europe is once again discovering how quickly a distant war can become a domestic argument. …

In a continent fatigued by overlapping emergencies—pandemics, war, digital upheavals, and democratic erosion—the question of leadership is no longer abstract. It is deeply gendered, painfully …

By Élise Moreau, European Affairs Analyst at Phoenix24 Brussels, July 2025 —At the outer terminals of Frontex, algorithms operate tirelessly. Faces are scanned, documents cross-checked, movement …