
The Competitiveness Trap: Why Only Shared Prosperity Delivers Economic Strength—and Resilience Against the Far Right
Europe’s pervasive far-right challenge is enduring.
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Marija Bartl is Professor of Transnational Private Law at the Amsterdam Law School and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law.

Europe’s pervasive far-right challenge is enduring.

Continuing our Europe2025 series, Marija Bartl argues that the metaphor of Europe as a ‘project’ foregrounds market integration and forestalls the emergence of a European public sphere.

Social democracy has been – traditionally – in favour of internationalization. In overcoming nationalism, that internationalism symbolized both the openness of social democracy to people

Recently, the TTIP negotiations have entered a new a phase in spite of wide public criticisms. The European Commission (EC) has made a number of