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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Eurosceptic parties will save Europe’s soul, despite themselvesWe must take seriously all the new parties in the European Parliament, not least because they might well be doing us...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?William Penn, the Englishman who invented the European ParliamentCedant arma togae (Let arms yield to the toga!) is written in the epigraph to the Project. It took nearly three...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Euro-sceptic Trojan horse: challenging the EU from withinEuro-sceptic political parties exploited public insecurity to make gains in the elections to the European Parliament...
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Published in: HomeSoma: slow massacre, the cost of Turkish success ?There remains a class in Turkey who have been left behind. They may be supporters of the government – Soma was an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France and the European electionsJust as shocking as if Nick Griffin's daughter had cornered 27% of British votes, it is clear why Nigel Farage does...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The habits of the heart: substantive democracy after the European electionsDespite the dramatic spread of democratic procedures in recent decades, there is a profound and growing deficit in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Grazie Italia – a ray of hope in a distrustful EuropeThis is a crucial opportunity for Italy to make its mark and counter the dogma of austerity as much as the division...
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Published in: HomeNew Zealand shrinks away from legal high limelightManufacturers aim to reap maximum profit in the minimal time before it is banned, so poorly developed NPS are thrown...
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Published in: HomeAdidas shoe factory strike and its implications for grassroots democracyThe strike at an Adidas shoe factory, the sheer scale of it and workers’ increasing skills of organising strikes...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Egypt, El-Sisi’s victory may be short-livedPresidential frontrunner and former military chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi can rely at present on considerable public...
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Published in: 50.50Meriam’s courage: facing death by hangingMeriam Ibrahim Yahya is incarcerated and shackled in Sudan's Omdurman Women’s Prison. Her twenty month old child and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From the idea of Europe to a Europe of ideasContrary to the maxim popularised by political scientists that there is no political community without a political...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can the birthplace of democracy provide the seeds of its renewal?When popular opposition was stirred up to the building of Athens' first mosque in the neighbourhood of Votanikos,...
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Published in: openSecurityNot polished enough! Have Swedes had enough of the far right?In an increasingly unequal Sweden, the far right has been able to capitalise on growing insecurity for its...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe: a concrete ideaThe rise of the far-right parties and more generally of the anti-European or euro-sceptic ones, such as the British...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia’s legacy of pollution confronts democratic politicsOudhref’s response toward the government is, ‘You ignored us for twenty years, and now the first project you bring...
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Published in: HomeAn Arab future: India, not Europe
Arabs' fixation on Europe contrasts with their neglect of India, whose experience is far more relevant to their own,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Who are the new Euro-believers?
Why is the variety of citizen narratives on Europe going unheard? What will it take? That ordinary people are...
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Published in: HomeAl-Qaida, and a global revolt
The jihadist campaigns, from Syria and Iraq to Kenya and Nigeria, have a religious focus. But their deeper trigger...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘We are here to stay and we won’t shut up’: Lampedusa in Hamburg’s indomitable fight for rightsFor those people who stood on that thin cusp between survival and becoming a casualty of war, the consequences of...
