Category: Politics - Page 31

Beyond numbers: securing gender equality in politics

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.

With the progressive bloc likely to replace the populists in power, the relics of the latter and a polarised society will remain challenging.

An enduring refugee crisis, the conflict is unlike any similar episode from World War II and its aftermath.

The European commissioner’s announcement of discontinuation of aid to Palestine, though countermanded, was hugely damaging.

Progressives, Eszter Kováts writes, need to avoid the trap of a politics which only knows friends and foes.

In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 but real change demands a green social contract.

The populist’s party topped the poll once more in the elections in Slovakia. Yet green political shoots emerged too.

If progressives are to defeat the populists, Jan Zielonka writes, they must offer a vision beyond the nation-state.

How the European Union failed to deal with the collapse of Yugoslavia has lessons for the imperative of enlargement today.

The State of the European Union address reflected a union buffeted by a series of crises.

The government of Aleksandar Vučić is trying to clean up its image, Lily Lynch writes—without having to clean up its act.

In Europe the struggle by Ukraine has largely been seen as a defence of universal norms. But around the world that is far from universal.

If Europe does not wake up to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, it could be complicit in genocide.