Politics

A potential conflict of national interests over Ukrainian refugees needs to be anticipated and pre-empted.

Most focus on women’s political participation has emphasised boosting its supply. But demand is the bigger problem.

Climate change and socio-economic trends will make large-scale migrations inevitable in the coming decades.

The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed on either side of the Israel-Hamas war.

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.

International law places copious constraints on how Israel can order the evacuation of northern Gaza, to protect civilians.

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

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.

The Christian Democrats must not learn the wrong lessons from two state elections by adopting the rhetoric of the far right.

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.

The EU should have seen this crisis coming and deployed sanctions against its ‘reliable energy partner’.

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.