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Published in: Can Europe Make It?At the dawn of hope, trepidation: Istanbul’s elections, the Gezi trial, and civil society’s futureOrdinary people are sick of divisive politics and how it impacts their daily lives. So what now for the political...
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Published in: HomePolitical obligation today - in honour of Judith ShklarThe self-destructive tendencies in western democracies in recent times Shklar would have found abhorrent, and it is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Gilets Noirs – the undocumented migrant collective taking Paris by stormWe meet some of the activists who have been inspired by the persistence and hope of the Gilets Jaunes.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We need to look in a different direction to solve the current crisis of liberalismCan liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us...
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Published in: 50.50European countries should face legal consequences for ‘criminalising’ migrant solidarity, says new reportFollowing openDemocracy revelations, a new EU-funded study reveals a sharp rise in cases of criminalised solidarity...
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Published in: HomeCitizens assembly: towards a politics of ‘considered judgement’Experts in deliberative democracy have been working across the world for around twenty years. Now, all of a sudden,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?French social sciences go khaki under increasing military influenceAs the weight of military funding increases in French social sciences, scholars risk losing their independence.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU can strengthen Balkan reformers just by keeping its wordIt is in the interest of the EU that North Macedonia starts accession negotiations now. Deutsch
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Istanbul’s rerun is a battle for the soul of TurkeySix summers ago, Erdogan’s social engineering efforts triggered their first major backlash in Istanbul. And this...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s politicised legal system on trialThis is not fascism, but it is postfascism. The degree to which the law is used and abused for political purposes in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?An autonomous Europe for a cooperative worldOnly as second best will the EU opt to act alone. By becoming better able to act, Europeans will, by definition, be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The emergency brake on the temporality of late capitalism“The "extreme centre" is on the rise, or already in power, and it's coming back in many countries, not only in Europe.”
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow the Johnson campaign is bringing Trump's media tactics to BritainThe sound of journalists being booed at Johnson’s launch event should be enough to raise concerns of something...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrom Peterborough to Peterloo: it's time for the Left to defend democracyThe Brexit Party’s project isn’t about real democracy. But their skewed narrative is gaining alarming traction,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLabour, the Left, Antisemitism, Israel and Palestine: a way forwardA call on the UK Labour Party, from within, to unequivocally expunge antisemitism from its ranks. To do so while...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAttacks on Grieve and Bercow stem from flawed, feudal ideas of ‘sovereignty’Parliament, human rights and judges – Brexiteers see all of these as impediments to their increasingly autocratic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Over the worst in Europe: the 2010s have not ended like the 1930sA resurgent “Europe of citizens” has fended off the challenge from the “Europe of Fatherlands”. What remains now is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Polish opposition united to beat populists in Euro elections – and failedRight-wing nationalists PiS increased vote share raises questions over pro-European bloc’s tactics.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe is criminalizing humanitarian aidPeople are drowning while politicians claim that avoidable civilian deaths are required for the defense of “European values”.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why won't the European Parliament let these three Catalan MEPs in?If these three Catalan MEPs are not allowed to participate in the next legislature, Europe will have lost more than...