Victor Broers

Victor is a European thinker and the initiator of the Navona Network - an informal group of public leaders, diplomats, entrepreneurs and intellectuals who join forces in transforming Europe from an economic community into a European community of wellbeing. He’s currently developing Manifest Europe - a positive future narrative.

The systemic meaning of US policy in the Western Hemisphere

The military operation in Venezuela conducted by the US on the night of January 3rd – culminating in the forcible removal and transfer of President Nicolás Maduro to the United States – marks a decisive rupture in the post-1945…

The Dutch election results and a European model of political restraint

The Netherlands recently voted in a parliamentary election that — by the narrowest of margins — appears to have checked the recent surge of far-right politics, yet without delivering a comfortable victory to the centrist forces. The…

Redesigning the United Nations: from intergovernmental forum to planetary stewardship

The United Nations was conceived in the aftermath of industrial slaughter and global collapse, not only as a safeguard against another world war, but as the institutional expression of a profound realization: that humanity had become a…

The Holy See’s paramount role: moral leadership in times of social unravelling

Holy Father, any messages for the United States?” NewsNation’s reporter Robert Sherman asked the new Pope Leo XIV, as he faced the world press for the first time. “Many,” Leo answered, pausing briefly before adding, “God bless you all.” His…

Geopolitical disorder through the lens of expanding interdependence – and human consciousness

We inhabit an era marked by profound systemic turbulence. The signs are unambiguous and universally visible on a daily basis: the return of authoritarian governance models, intensifying strategic competition among great powers, the fraying…

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