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Published in: Can Europe Make It?November 17: youth uprisings in Greece then and nowThis authoritarian vision starts with education, an education promoted by the Minister of Education Niki Kerameos,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lessons we can learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall have never been more topicalDid we learn from this that it is necessary to support and encourage citizens who fight for democracy and human...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The post-politics of 1989 are the root of Europe's anti-liberal turn1989 was hailed as the end of politics, but it created the conditions for regressive populism to emerge 30 years later.
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Published in: ourEconomySrećko Horvat on building on a left transnationalism"We need transnational cooperation because those we are fighting against are working transnationally"
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRentier Capitalism is breeding neo-fascism. Vote wisely!Faced with a crisis of awesome proportions, we must develop a strategy for re-embedding the economy in society.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Revisiting the Brandenburg Gate"If I had been planning last weekend¹s celebration, I would have tried in some way to capture that hard won freedom...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why it keeps kicking off everywhere: ‘Order’ versus social justice from the Balkans, to the Middle East, to the AndesThis is a cold war fought by “leaders” willing to maintain their privilege at all costs, to the detriment of a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The 1989 revolutions and the Peace Movement“We saw ourselves as an anti-Cold War movement and not just an anti-nuclear movement. We wanted to end the division...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The fragile lightness of freedom: the Berlin Wall, thirty years onWhat the fall of the Wall and the last thirty years should have taught us is that without freedom there is no...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionEurope failed immigrants after the Berlin Wall fell, now it risks doing the sameThirty years on, European countries cannot once again respond to immigration with denial and barbed wire.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Shared histories: Austria’s interest in Italy is still very much alive"Call it a Europe-building exercise imposed from above, if you must. For me, cynicism had no place on screen last night.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Tories are exploiting Jewish fears over antisemitism“To get away with dog-whistle antisemitism and at the same time in the chase for votes shamelessly exploit Jewish...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, the far right has come of ageThe Nazis of my generation grew up. They have kids now. But they still carry the hate of their teenage years.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?1989: the end of what?It is not merely a bad mood that makes East Europeans look beyond ’liberal democracy’, but the unresolved political...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe's multi-billion border budget is a bonanza for the security industryThirty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe has built hundreds of miles of new fences – with plans for more.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Welfare surveillance on trial in the NetherlandsCourts held hearings on a lawsuit by a number of groups concerned at the draconian Dutch system in late October,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Croatia’s violent pushbacks of refugees and asylum-seekersAs the Croatian president confirms pushbacks, the European Commission turns a blind eye.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s response to protests is a dangerous step towards authoritarianism“The reality is a democratic mass movement increasingly frustrated with successive governments who have sought...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and the paradox of unity“This polarisation between two forceful pressures towards unity is leaving many people like me without any options.” Español
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The hidden history of a Jewish family in OdessaThe Ephrussis’ Russian story was a classic tale of early modern capitalists – but well before their peers.