Oliver Haynes is a freelance writer and a researcher in politics and French studies at Exeter University.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Gilets Jaunes under attackThe Gilets Jaunes have arisen out of the profound inequality that is fracturing societies across Europe. It is against that inequality that leaders must take a strongman stance.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Remainers! beware demographic argumentsWe need to change minds with a positive message like DIEM25’s proposal of a European Green New Deal.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Gilets Jaunes and the two faces of FacebookFacebook design allows popular ideas to be shared and expanded on – the dream of everyone having an equal political voice is very much alive in these digital citizens’ assemblies.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yellow Vests – the first battleThey want Macron to know that they are the people and they will be ignored no longer. So perhaps there is democracy in the streets after all.