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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Wounded beast: the French government’s fake newsParis, May 1, 2019. Impunity, kettling, racism and gas: a view of the policing from the ground up.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: real weapons of mass distractionMatteo Salvini’s rhetoric is getting ever more worrying as we approach the EU elections.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Charta 2020: A Charter of European Public GoodsTo mark Europe Day, 2019 – Charta 2020 is a vision for a democratic and egalitarian European Union, and a demand to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Restive immobility – Melville’s tale of EuropeSeen from the commander’s deck in Brussels, calm is not a bad option after all. Cooptation in power is working...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?For a political EuropeA political Europe doesn’t exist, and one cannot pretend it is there, as both neo-liberals and sovranists do. An...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Sociology and philosophy under threat in Brazil – a petitionThe recent measures against sociology and philosophy in public universities that have been announced by the minister...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Saviours of the nation? – on the breakthrough of the radical populist right in SpainAttacking the symptom (i.e., the populist radical right) is not going to do the trick – not in Spain, not in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can British democracy handle the European elections? – public debate, civility and extremismThis current political crisis is not just about how the Brexit stand-off is resolved. The challenge is to show that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How the 5-Star Movement is losing support over broken green promisesMore than 50 pages were dedicated to the environment in the M5S electoral programme, fruit of an online consultation...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Are clownish outsiders the future of democracy?Comedic buffoonery no longer marks the dividing line between satire and news. It is now the starting point for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Christian, secular, cultural: Europe’s cathedrals as enduring sacred spacesCathedrals are sacred Christian spaces and secular sights of interest, sometimes simultaneously. In historic moments...
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Published in: HomeThe DFLA: a(nother) new UK far right movement?Britain’s far-right undertow turns hostile currents against ethnic and religious minorities into a tsunami of hatred.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Britain’s radical right in the EU electionsFarage’s former party is a remarkably useful foil for him to deny his own links to the radical right, allowing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Beyond Brexit: the moment to transform EuropeAn internationalist campaign for a European Green New Deal would counter the campaigns of both the Brexit Party and...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#SpanishElections Spain is a beacon of hope for Europe and the worldSocial democracy’s victory in Spain shows that it is possible to put a halt to the rising international far right...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Modern racismWhy a compromise in international politics no longer plays on the side of democracy. And it is democracy that is at stake.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTrafficked women in Denmark: falling through the cracksDenmark’s claim to want to help ‘victims of trafficking’ will ring hollow as long as Danish legislation does not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK“Brexit does split families” - anxious EU citizens unconvinced by Home Office reassuranceAs Brexit limbo rolls on, EU citizens in the UK are sick with anxiety, and feeling that the human costs are being...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe extreme right international movement gets ready to fight its next battle in SpainHours before the closing of the campaign, an investigation by openDemocracy reveals the widespread international...
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Published in: 50.50Revealed: the Trump-linked ‘Super PAC’ working behind the scenes to drive Europe’s voters to the far rightopenDemocracy undercover investigation reveals ‘explosive’ evidence of ‘extraordinary coordination’ between...