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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Polish boomerang: how Warsaw’s adoption of the 'Budapest Model' could threaten the original in Hungary
The new Polish government seems keen on following the authoritarian 'Budapest model' promulgated by illiberal...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European democracy after Paris
Ironically, as political distrust and dissatisfaction are at all-time highs in Europe, the vast majority of people...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?As Europe looks fearfully outside, its liberal democracy is under attack from within
Liberal democracy in Europe is under threat once more. This time, however, the threat comes from within the European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The key lesson from Syriza’s defeat? A different Europe requires both ideology and competence
To achieve anything in politics, including changing the rules, you have to master ‘the art of the possible,’ as...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?It’s time to end the Eurosceptic illusions
The EU is inherently a transnational neoliberal project. It is unrealistic to expect, and disingenuous to suggest,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why the new far-right political group in the European Parliament is a political failure
Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders announced the formation of the new Europe of Nations and Freedoms group in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism and liberal democracy: is Greece the exception or the future of Europe?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?After Syriza’s landslide: five predictions of a much similar future
In the end though, this will all probably lead mainly to more fragmentation, which will make fundamental change even...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?No, we are NOT all Charlie (and that’s a problem)
It is comforting and politically expedient to claim that “we” are attacked because “they” cannot deal with “our”...
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Published in: oDRRussia's Trojan Horse
Is the European far right really acting as Russia's Trojan Horse in the European Union?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EAF is dead! Long live the MENL!
The Front National has long been at the centre of pan-European party initiatives, which were always dominated by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Liberal democracy: the do’s and don’ts of banning political extremism
The most prominent case is the extreme right political party Golden Dawn in Greece. While all cases are different,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Electoral winners and political losers in the right-wing Eurosceptic camp
Could the political success of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the aftermath of the 2014 European...
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Published in: HomeIs Gerry Adams an Irish Nelson Mandela?
Acknowledgments of culpability from leaders on both sides of the South African conflict to the vaunted Truth and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The divided house of anti-Europe
Right-wing Eurosceptic parties will have more MEPs than ever before in the next European Parliament. But this...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A new (order) Ukraine? Assessing the relevance of Ukraine’s far right in an EU perspective
Now that the EU is ready to embrace the new Ukrainian government, investing at least one billion euros in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Nothing left? In search of (a new) social democracy
(Real) social democracy is not just unknown to several generations of voters, but it is contradictory to their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The myth of Weimar Europe
Since the start of the Great Recession, it has become received wisdom that the far right is on the rise across...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European elite's politics of fear
Fear mongering about 'anti-European populism' discredits the EU elite’s position on European democracy – it should stop.