Category: Politics - Page 28

Poland: from populism … into the unknown

Jan Zielonka draws lessons from the second transition in Poland—and its Europe-wide ramifications.

Mainstream parties attempting to regain support from radical-right populists can unintentionally benefit them.

Protests in Ireland against the housing of single male asylum-seekers highlight the role played by security in far-right discourse.

After two years of war, victory eludes Ukraine yet must be denied Russia—a frozen conflict is the least bad scenario.

Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza has fallen victim to other than humanitarian considerations.

As the European Parliament elections loom, with the populists rising, progressives need a liberal-left narrative.

The war in Ukraine has two major implications for Europe and Europeans. Unfortunately, they are contradictory.

The wave of demonstrations against the Alternative für Deutschland is no surprise, given Germany’s postwar history.

Serbia is rapidly veering off its accession course, with a potentially fraudulent election and growing distance from EU foreign policy.

A spectre is haunting Europe, Paul Mason writes. It is the spectre of Trumpism, mark two.

Progressive European leaders need to tell a convincing story about the necessity of reaching outwards in a dangerous world.

The European Union has the opportunity to prioritise preventive action over crisis management.

Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.

Behind the Conservatives’ obsession with sending asylum-seekers to Africa is a politics of never-ending scapegoating.

Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.

That Russia lacks the means to achieve its neo-imperial vision will not stop it from pursuing it to the bitter end.