How to puncture the populist right in Europe
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
The far right’s national-populist narrative has gone largely unchallenged—despite its utter incoherence.
Options for Europe’s ‘geopolitical’ future
Global challenges have left only one option off the table for the European Union—inertia.
A green growth and innovation paradigm
Meeting the challenge of climate change requires social democracy to come up with a new social paradigm.
How the climate crisis is changing Europe’s economic landscape
After four decades, the pandemic and especially the climate crisis have silenced the exponents of fiscal orthodoxy. Keynes is back.
Maximising the potential of the European Green Deal
Jon Bloomfield and Fred Steward
The European Green Deal doesn’t deserve uncritical support—but nor does it need sniping from the sidelines.
The limits of the nationalist left
The nationalist left offers one response to neoliberal globalisation. The wrong one.
Countering the crisis of the left
Should social democracy tack towards populists wooing its electorate with xenophobic slogans? The crisis of the left demands instead a positive alternative to social insecurity.
Taking The Initiative: How Europe Should Respond To Brexit
The week after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Nigel Farage went to the European Parliament and boasted that this was the beginning