The ‘Left’ will stand a chance if it relaunches an agenda of social rights and supranationalism. After all, they are the most logical responses to neoliberalism and nationalism.
The ‘Left’ will stand a chance if it relaunches an agenda of social rights and supranationalism. After all, they are the most logical responses to neoliberalism and nationalism.
The WTO has to be reformed and updated, not discarded. And the EU should play its part, while at the same time promoting its own industrial growth.
The WTO has to be reformed and updated, not discarded. And the EU should play its part, while at the same time promoting its own industrial growth.
On the one hand, the Trump administration aims at strengthening the US economy and armed forces; on the other, it intends to turn its back on the rest of the world.
Far-right populism, with its emphasis on nationalism, cultural ‘purity’, anti-immigration, and security, might become a much stronger catalyser of votes, even where this has not yet happened.
Far-right populism, with its emphasis on nationalism, cultural ‘purity’, anti-immigration, and security, might become a much stronger catalyser of votes, even where this has not yet happened.
Is Germany ready for a new ‘social contract’, more adequate to the global age? Or does it want to continue under the comfortable protection of a reassuring Mutti?
Is Germany ready for a new ‘social contract’, more adequate to the global age? Or does it want to continue under the comfortable protection of a reassuring Mutti?
What European democracies have lacked most, since at least the 1980s, is high-profile political vision.
What European democracies have lacked most, since at least the 1980s, is high-profile political vision.
The forthcoming elections, in France, Germany, and elsewhere, will mark a watershed. It is a time for choices to be made.
