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Published in: ourEconomyYanis Varoufakis: "The coronavirus has intensified the euro crisis"
The renowned economist speaks to openDemocracy about the European Central Bank's response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Published in: HomeCogito: of reasons and causesWe can only be invited retrospectively to interpret and understand our actions.
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Published in: openMovementsVirus: all that is solid melts in the airIs it easier to ascertain the truthfulness and quality of a society’s institutions under normal daily circumstances...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Women refugee photographers who changed how post-war Britain saw itselfThese images served to signal that there was also a cultural dimension to the hopes for post-war renewal.
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Published in: openMovementsDemocratic horizons in times of corona governanceGatekeepers of the present order adapt efficiently. But others can open up a plurality of futures.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionNeoliberal realism: eastern Europe’s doomed love affair with western valuesDoesn’t eastern Europe, cinema as well, need to locate its identity in new ways to negotiate its history; the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the edges of democracy: mobilizing health and care as a common goodIn the moment of the ‘corona crisis’, autocratic tendencies are cropping up, hitting those who are the least...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionIs 'helicopter money' the answer to the looming economic crisis?Central banks must join the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. But policymakers must be cautious about using...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brexit: the ‘Australian option’?If this is all a negotiating ploy, Boris Johnson has massively overplayed his hand.
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Published in: HomeAfter the pandemic: how will the right fight back?Five ways in which they might rescue the wider political project from the jaws of defeat.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Coronavirus crisis: major economic and financial consequencesWe rediscover that health is a global public good, and that public health and welfare systems are crucial...
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Published in: HomeThe left contra Critique?Let's have no more calls for the destruction of art works.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow EU rules are getting in the way of progressive public policy – and how cities are fighting backThis week the European Commission made a new push to limit cities’ rights to promote sustainable local development...
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Published in: HomeLife in lockdown Italy: like a creepy summer holidayReading the news, you’d think that everything is closed, that everyone is sick or scared. The reality where I live,...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe coronavirus has exposed the dangers of an economy built on insecurityThe outbreak has shown that we are only as safe as the most vulnerable in society. When many workers lack basic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Parties with a history of secessionist violence: what does their electoral success mean for peace and democracy?The acceptance of Sinn Fein and HDP as legitimate actors by the wider community is an important opportunity, but one...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: the epidemic vs. democracyOnly a true democratic consensus on what must be done will make more stringent and efficient measures possible if...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean: hybrid warfare, the Balkans and the Near EastHas Turkey weaponized the refugees in a hybrid warfare against a hypocritical Europe and NATO, while Russia is the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The massification of precarity“Economic insecurity, not inequality, is the real grievance of the 99 per cent.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Irish election and the possibility of a left populismMore and more voters are no longer willing to accept a political status quo that makes doing “everything else”...