Category: Politics - Page 30

Barking up the wrong European tree

A multi-level Europe of networks, Jan Zielonka argues, is the flexible alternative to brittle clashes over ‘sovereignty’.

Last year’s ‘partial mobilisation’ triggered a backlash against the Kremlin and Putin is fearful of a repeat.

The election victory in the Netherlands for the Party for Freedom fits into a wider picture of European radical-right populism.

Behind closed doors, the companies have fiercely lobbied the European Union to leave advanced artificial-intelligence systems unregulated.

Albania’s agreement to process offshore asylum-seekers heading for Italy, Lily Lynch writes, is not a good look.

Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party has a questionable support base and doubtful prospects—like others of its kind across Europe.

The imperative of solidarity is with all those Jews and Palestinians who seek the solution neither Hamas nor Netanyahu wants.

The European Union must find a collective and distinctive voice to seek to rein in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

Amid geoeconomic disruption and geopolitical competition, the alternatives are stark: democratic socialism or barbarism.

A unity cemented by tolerance is needed for social-democratic success in the elections to the European Parliament.

It will take decades of intellectual effort, Paul Mason writes, before a new world order emerges from the cumulative chaos.

A potential conflict of national interests over Ukrainian refugees needs to be anticipated and pre-empted.

Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.

Amid escalating deaths, claims and counter-claims, Robert Misik clears the smoke of self-righteous dissembling.

Challenging intolerance does involve a political economy of justice. But it must also provide an affective alternative.

The reignition of the conflict should have surprised no one, had not so many eyes—including in Europe—been averted.