Barcelona: a feminist municipalism now at risk
Barcelona has shown the transformative role urban municipalities can play in conjunction with local civil society.
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Barcelona has shown the transformative role urban municipalities can play in conjunction with local civil society.
If Spaniards vote for the right next month, Spain would be yet another country in its growing European bulwark.
At the heart of the scandal that broke the right-wing coalition government in 2019, the Freedom Party is now riding high.
The geopolitical impetus behind further EU enlargement meets formidable forces of inertia.
The victorious Turkish president is likely to pursue a hardline conservative agenda with his ultranationalist allies.
Young people across the eastern-EU member states believe in Europe and universal norms—but their governments turn them off.
The chemical giants outspend even Big Tech and Big Energy on lobbying the EU—and it’s working.
The messy struggle for leadership of Austria’s social democrats, Robert Misik writes, nevertheless has echoes for others.
The xenophobia from the social-democratic leader since his first-round defeat is unlikely to win him the second.
‘National Conservatism’, Paul Mason writes, fails to chime with British national-popular culture.
On International Day Against Homophobia, official Russia now demarcates itself very firmly on the other global side.
Putin’s Victory Day pitch for more military recruits is unlikely to encourage men to enlist in the army.
Why it remains worthwhile to listen to the embattled French president, Emmanuel Macron—and why not.
In the context of the Ukraine war, Russia is scaling back the May 9th Victory Day celebrations, amid fear of popular protests.
Ordinary Russians are unable to protest against the Ukraine war. But evidence of covert resistance is everywhere.
Eszter Kováts writes that censoriousness is not the way to deal with legitimate concerns about social-justice claims.
Trade unions in Sweden want a more equitable tax system, where companies compete on quality, not tax minimisation.
Outsourcing asylum to African countries is a terrible idea—there are alternatives.
The EU should suspend trade preferences for Myanmar and end support for projects under the military regime.
On the anniversary of the imprisonment of Belarus’ union leadership, Europe must renew efforts for the release of political prisoners.
Radical-right parties are transforming the welfare state, recreating a moral separation between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’.