Preparing Russia for permanent war
Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.
Politics
Analysis and debate on European and national politics, democracy, the rule of law, parties and elections, and Europe’s place in the world.
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.
Asylum and migration: a positive alternative policy
Gesine Schwan and Robin Wilson
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.
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.
The west must face reality in Ukraine
Whereas the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing to throw everything at this war, Ukraine’s backers are losing their resolve.
EU enlargement, reform and the missing citizens
EU institutional reform should be about the citizenry. So what happened to the Conference on the Future of Europe?
Neoliberalism: still to shrug off its mortal coil
In 2011 Colin Crouch’s The Strange Non-death of Neoliberalism appeared to acclaim. Its author reflects on a shifting landscape since.
Normalising the far right: a warning from Austria
Facing the threat from right-wing populism at June’s Euro-elections, Austria offers lessons for progressives.
Yesterday, today and the shadow of fascism
Why has the far right returned, after Holocaust and war? Chaos unnerves the vulnerable, sugaring fascism’s hollow promises.
EU-US relations: key to geopolitical stability
The transatlantic partnership must be strengthened to combat a range of multifaceted global challenges.
The AI Act: deregulation in disguise
The loopholes in the AI Act emerging from trilogue negotiations late on Friday could allow big corporations to slip through.