Neoliberalism: still to shrug off its mortal coil
In 2011 Colin Crouch’s The Strange Non-death of Neoliberalism appeared to acclaim. Its author reflects on a shifting landscape since.
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In 2011 Colin Crouch’s The Strange Non-death of Neoliberalism appeared to acclaim. Its author reflects on a shifting landscape since.
Facing the threat from right-wing populism at June’s Euro-elections, Austria offers lessons for progressives.
Why has the far right returned, after Holocaust and war? Chaos unnerves the vulnerable, sugaring fascism’s hollow promises.
The transatlantic partnership must be strengthened to combat a range of multifaceted global challenges.
The loopholes in the AI Act emerging from trilogue negotiations late on Friday could allow big corporations to slip through.
Liberalism and socialism have been wrongly counterposed. Connected, they represent a hegemonic alternative.
The EU needs more coherent governance not just to accommodate its enlargement but to assume its global responsibilities.
The European Parliament last month endorsed proposals for treaty changes which would trump nationalistic vetoes.
Public investment has been skewed towards the military in the last decade when a much wider array of threats are in evidence.
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.
Ukraine and Moldova have taken a huge step towards European Union membership but hazards lie ahead.
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.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had a profound effect on the European Union, whose response is defining its trajectory.
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.