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Dec 13, 2024
This is a story which exemplifies the vicious, anti-democratic cycle that underpins the EU’s political dynamics.
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Dec 3, 2024
n recent years, Western governments have increasingly engaged in self-conscious industrial policies to address a variety of problems — the green transition, resilience of...
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Nov 7, 2024
The EU’s worst nightmare has come true: Donald Trump is returning to the White House. It’s not hard to imagine the panic that many leaders must feeling as they gather...
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Oct 14, 2024
The European Union is about to enter what could prove to be the most ominous phase in its troubled history. In a few weeks, Ursula von der Leyen’s new European Commission will...
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Aug 31, 2024
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Jul 16, 2024
European leaders were already panicking at the prospect of a Donald Trump victory, which looked likely even before Saturday’s assassination...
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Jul 9, 2024
It seems fitting that Keir Starmer’s international debut should be the Nato summit that kicks off in Washington, DC today.
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Jun 25, 2024
With France bracing itself for the first round of its snap parliamentary election this Sunday, the near-certain prospect of victory for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) has...
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Jun 12, 2024
Depending on where you stand politically, you might view the Right-populist surge in the European Parliament as either a grave threat to democracy, or as a striking victory for it...
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May 27, 2024
Just five years ago, the 70th anniversary of the birth of the post-war German democratic state was accompanied by euphoric celebrations across the country. This week, by contrast,...
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May 9, 2024
In a cruel twist of fate, Brussels has shed its progressive skin
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May 2, 2024
Few 20th-century thinkers have had such a lasting and profound influence as Karl Polanyi.
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Apr 19, 2024
The US may be losing ground to new global powers in many respects, but when it comes to the business of sowing conflict around the world, it remains unrivalled. As it slowly abandons...
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Apr 4, 2024
With the European Parliamentary elections just two months away, the final result seems all but decided.
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Mar 28, 2024
The West’s China hawks have their own agenda
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Mar 15, 2024
Javier Milei, Argentina’s self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” president, enjoys an almost Christ-like status among heterodox conservatives and MAGA-style...
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Mar 1, 2024
Both Russia and the West could spark an escalation
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Feb 15, 2024
Donald Trump, we’re told, is “dumb”, “shameful” and “un-American”, at least according to President Biden. He’s a warmonger...
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Feb 2, 2024
For much of the Merkel era, Germany stood as an island of economic and political stability amid Europe’s perennially stormy waters. Those days, however, seem like a distant...
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Jan 19, 2024
A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of degrowth communism. Or so Kohei Saito, the rising star of contemporary Marxist thought, would have you believe. Saito is the...
Jun 25, 2024With France bracing itself for the first round of its snap parliamentary election this Sunday, the near-certain prospect of victory for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) has...
Jun 12, 2024Depending on where you stand politically, you might view the Right-populist surge in the European Parliament as either a grave threat to democracy, or as a striking victory for it...
May 27, 2024Just five years ago, the 70th anniversary of the birth of the post-war German democratic state was accompanied by euphoric celebrations across the country. This week, by contrast,...
May 9, 2024In a cruel twist of fate, Brussels has shed its progressive skin 
May 2, 2024Few 20th-century thinkers have had such a lasting and profound influence as Karl Polanyi.
Apr 19, 2024The US may be losing ground to new global powers in many respects, but when it comes to the business of sowing conflict around the world, it remains unrivalled. As it slowly abandons...
Apr 4, 2024With the European Parliamentary elections just two months away, the final result seems all but decided.
Mar 28, 2024The West’s China hawks have their own agenda
Mar 15, 2024Javier Milei, Argentina’s self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” president, enjoys an almost Christ-like status among heterodox conservatives and MAGA-style...
Mar 1, 2024Both Russia and the West could spark an escalation
Feb 15, 2024Donald Trump, we’re told, is “dumb”, “shameful” and “un-American”, at least according to President Biden. He’s a warmonger...
Feb 2, 2024For much of the Merkel era, Germany stood as an island of economic and political stability amid Europe’s perennially stormy waters. Those days, however, seem like a distant...
Jan 19, 2024A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of degrowth communism. Or so Kohei Saito, the rising star of contemporary Marxist thought, would have you believe. Saito is the...