Europe’s Perilous Path: It’s a Rush Before the Crash
Europe is on a self-destructive course with no plausible remedies for mounting problems. The result is widespread uncertainty, helplessness and fear.
Jan Zielonka
The Empire Strikes Back, and Europe is Confused
Amid a world of resurgent imperial powers, a fragmented Europe grapples with its past and uncertain future.
Why Populists Are Winning: The Broken Promise of Liberal Democracy
As democracy falters, voters turn to populists. Can innovation save democracy from its outdated frameworks?
No Europe for young men
Europe’s democracies are failing their youth as short-sighted policies prioritise the needs of older generations, leaving young people without a voice or a future.
George Orwell and Europe’s new normal
Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has won the electoral first round in France. Welcome to a Europe Orwell would have recognised.
Is the world getting out of control?
A world in turmoil, Jan Zielonka writes, needs a democratic Europe, with a new social contract, offering hope to the helpless.
Poland: from populism … into the unknown
Jan Zielonka draws lessons from the second transition in Poland—and its Europe-wide ramifications.
Barking up the wrong European tree
A multi-level Europe of networks, Jan Zielonka argues, is the flexible alternative to brittle clashes over ‘sovereignty’.
Social democracy versus the nativist right
If progressives are to defeat the populists, Jan Zielonka writes, they must offer a vision beyond the nation-state.
The challenge of instant democracy
We need to find ways, Jan Zielonka writes, to ensure that ‘fast’ democracy is not ‘junk’ democracy.
The European Union at war
How can a civilian power such as the EU, Jan Zielonka asks, contend with uncivilised behaviour?
Has the coronavirus brought back the nation-state?
The coronavirus crisis has remade the case for public authority—but that can only work in a complex network of multi-level governance.
Europe’s future: democracy and equality should come first
In our ‘Europe2025’ series, Jan Zielonka offers a vision of a normative, not a technocratic, Europe, driven by the values of democracy and equality.
Harakiri, Italian Style
Liberals across Europe seem happy: President Mattarella has prevented populists from taking over the Italian government and averted another Euro crisis. Their joy will be
The Big Idea For Liberals
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberalism has been the “only game in town” across the whole of Europe. This is no longer the