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Published in: HomeFrançois Hollande and France: the big testThe new French president has consolidated his authority with a decisive win in the legislative elections. But the...
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Published in: Home“Syriza is the expression of a new radicalism on the left”: excerpt of an interview with Stathis Kouvélakis in late May
The rise of Syriza is a profound transformation for a radical left that is still traumatized by the defeat of Greek...
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Published in: openSecurityGreek populist parties and the disoriented mainstream
The results of May's legislative elections in Greece may derive from the degree of public anger at the EU-IMF rescue...
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Published in: openSecurityGrammars of enmity: a Golden Dawn of contemporary Greek democracy?
Far right groups like Golden Dawn are not a new phenomenon in Greek society, nor do they derive from the...
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Published in: HomeEnd in sight to "Othering the Union". Hope for Europe.
The European debt crisis is political more than financial, as argued by George Soros. But the solution to the...
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Published in: HomeReflexivity, Soros and three months for the euro
The euro crisis needs a collective solution, designed and implemented by both the core and the periphery. It has to...
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Published in: HomeAfter the Greek election
Whatever the case, one thing is certain: Syriza will further increase its voting power.
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Published in: openEconomyThe Bang! moment is nowTo understand the dynamics and timing of the Eurozone crisis, you need to understand how the European Central Bank...
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Published in: HomeWind of fair change in France?
While immediate economic reforms are crucial in the current climate, any new captain also cannot avoid the social...
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Published in: HomeBelief in the Union: solidarity with the Greeks
They think ‘Europe’ is ‘foreign affairs’. But Europe is nothing if it is not its citizens. That is why, the day...
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Published in: HomeGREXIT and the sovereign crisis of trust: why the Greeks should not accept the German terms of austerity
Greeks should not accept Germany's austerity measures but should remain in the euro, and ultimately seek a federal...
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Published in: HomeDear Merkel, beware Greeks bearing geopolitics
It is time to stop the chorus of blackmail assailing Syriza, the radical Greek left party poised to win the Sunday...
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Published in: 50.50Death at the global frontier
More than 16,000 people have died at the borders of Europe since 1993, but who is responsible? Leanne Weber explores...
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Published in: HomeElite hauteur: Greece, Niger and the IMF
It may be time to remind ourselves of the parallels between today's IMF-Merkel-Cameron package for Europe’s nations...
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Published in: HomeMapping Greece's forthcoming electionsAs Greek electoral law awards the party that comes first 50 bonus seats in the country’s 300-seat parliament,...
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Published in: openEconomyGreece should leave the Euro, but for jobs, not to get away from the vultures
In a lengthy response to Ann Pettifor's call for Europe to abandon the Euro's "fetters of gold", the author...
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Published in: HomeMove aside, now it's up to us: Italy’s political quake
Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement is not the antithesis to politics, nor is it the end of democracy; on the...
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Published in: HomeThe Alabama syndrome
The European Union is not the United States; Germany is not Massachusetts; and Greece is not Alabama, more’s the pity.
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Published in: openEconomyAn open letter to the leaders of Europe: abandon the Euro's 'gold fetters'
European leaders need to abandon the fetters that chain them to the interests of private wealth, and threaten...
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Published in: Home28 years after… while Roma wait
Twenty eight years exactly since the first resolution on Roma was passed by the European Parliament, the EU is...