Germany’s protests: defying a national stereotype
The wave of demonstrations against the Alternative für Deutschland is no surprise, given Germany’s postwar history.
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Backsliding in Belgrade: Serbia’s European future
Serbia is rapidly veering off its accession course, with a potentially fraudulent election and growing distance from EU foreign policy.
Europe’s nightmare: an isolationist America
A spectre is haunting Europe, Paul Mason writes. It is the spectre of Trumpism, mark two.
Ukraine war: corruption and politico-military tensions
Corruption scandals and high-level rifts could become an existential threat as Kyiv asks for more military aid.
A sharp right turn: European Parliament election forecast
Progressive European leaders need to tell a convincing story about the necessity of reaching outwards in a dangerous world.
Europe and conflict prevention: better than cure
The European Union has the opportunity to prioritise preventive action over crisis management.
Preparing Russia for permanent war
Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.
Refugees and Rwanda: the Tories’ road to perdition
Behind the Conservatives’ obsession with sending asylum-seekers to Africa is a politics of never-ending scapegoating.
Israel, Hamas and the Gaza war: delusion and reality
Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.
The global consequences of the war in Ukraine
That Russia lacks the means to achieve its neo-imperial vision will not stop it from pursuing it to the bitter end.
Gaza war: the genocide case against Israel
Whatever the legal determination, Israel already faces a symbolic reversal in the claim of 'genocide' against it in The Hague.
Asylum and migration: a positive alternative policy
It’s time for a Gestalt shift from curbing ‘irregular’ migration to pursuing integration for mutual benefit.
When ‘never again’ becomes ‘again and again’
The dalliance of the German AfD with neo-Nazis is echoed by the brazenness of the far right in Austria.
Identity politics: in defence of ‘old white men’
Arguments over who has a right to speak, Eszter Kováts writes, should give way to discussing what they say.
Smersh: Putin reinstates Stalin’s anti-spy unit
The move may be seen as a further indication of the increasing clampdown on all forms of internal dissent in Russia.
Agreement on migration or political gesture?
The package to show Europe is in control of irregular arrivals is a triumph of performance over policy.
The EU must rise to the enlargement challenge
A host of obstacles to realising the enlargement perspective of the summit in December can be surmounted with political will.