UK’s Rwanda bill is doomed for political failure
Not only does such a policy not work to deter migration—it will politically damage any party that adopts it.
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Not only does such a policy not work to deter migration—it will politically damage any party that adopts it.
The EU budget is too small and too based on member-state contributions, fostering a short-sighted mentality.
Critics have misunderstood the complexity behind Viktor Orbán’s narrative of railing against ‘Brussels’.
Georgia is sliding towards autocracy after its government moves to force through a bill on ‘foreign agents’.
The lead candidate of the Party of European Socialists sets out his political stall for the European Parliament elections in June.
Political scientist Eunice Goes explains the vicissitudes of social democracy historically and addresses its contemporary challenges.
Ukraine is losing the war. If the west does not help now, it will face a resurgent and aggressive Russia.
Whoever wins the US presidential election, Paul Mason writes, the EU has no option but to underpin its collective defence.
As the movement of people across the Mediterranean has become securitised, Frontex has come to the fore—not to good effect.
The situation in Gaza cries out for a broad coalition of countries committed to a just and permanent peace.
The European Parliament has in this term learnt lessons on enforcing universal norms, which next term must be acted upon.
We should counter the radical right, Robert Misik writes, not with left-wing populism but the power of reason.
Two books focused on Britain address shifting class configurations and go back to the drawing board on a hegemonic project.
Is the security council ‘demand’ for a ceasefire legally binding? Here is what international law says.
People fleeing conflict are dying—especially in the Mediterranean en route to Europe—due to lack of safe pathways.
With access to food aid denied by Israel, two-thirds of a million Gazans already face ‘catastrophe’.
The opposition, Eszter Kováts writes, should not succumb to Orbán’s friend versus foe politics in the European elections.
Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and the international community must exercise its ‘responsibility to protect’.
The answer is not to ban the AfD but to enhance democracy so that citizens think it is worth defending.
The European Parliament should be setting the gold standard in ensuring the wellbeing of its staff.
Ten years after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, annexed Crimea, its grip on the peninsula looks shaky.