Category: Politics - Page 34

The populist-radical-right impact on the welfare state

Radical-right parties are transforming the welfare state, recreating a moral separation between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’.

We need to find ways, Jan Zielonka writes, to ensure that ‘fast’ democracy is not ‘junk’ democracy.

Since 1975 feminists have helped establish new international frameworks. Success inadvertently sowed the seeds of populist campaigns.

Sanna Marin is the right person to preside over the European Council. But would she want to?

As an ally to both, the European Union can facilitate their mutual understanding and engagement.

The scale of the crises Europe faces requires not only a raising of the policy stakes but a restructuring of its governance.

Whether Russia’s president ever ends up in handcuffs, the International Criminal Court’s indictment is a big step in the right direction.

The Austrian social democrats are heading into a leadership contest, Robert Misik writes. For the SPÖ it could get bumpy.

The west’s focus on the war in Ukraine risks a geopolitically counterproductive neglect of the urgent problems of the global south.

Europe’s relations with Africa and Asia are on the brink of collapse, and Russia is benefiting.

With a tenth general strike in France against the pension reform, an exit is needed from decrees and street clashes towards negotiated governance.

Real incomes have been ravaged in the UK, Paul Mason writes. That’s why the strikes are popular.

Can the Czech Republic keep bucking the populist trend in central Europe affecting Poland, Slovakia and Hungary?

The government’s efforts to deflect responsibility for the train disaster have failed to contain public outrage.

Germany has made significant strides to transcend ordoliberal nostra. But huge obstacles still stand in the way of progress.

European societies are less polarised than in the United States—and than we are led to believe.