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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Women in power: countries with female leaders suffer six times fewer Covid deaths and will recover sooner from recession
They did not underestimate the risks, focused on preventative measures and prioritized long-term social wellbeing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Estonia’s populist and radical right: how radical are they?
Many political observers have noticed how the most recent anti-immigration protests relating to the debate on the UN...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?E-residency: the citizenship of the future?
Estonia's program of 'e-residency' allows you to be a citizen of the country no matter where you live - an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The geopolitics of Trumpology
A look at the curious emergence of pro-Trumpism among the far-right parties of Greece, Hungary and Estonia.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Central and eastern Europe as playground of a conservative avant-garde
Central and eastern European hard right parties have more rapid success than their western counterparts, due to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Contentious politics in the Baltics: the ‘new’ wave of right-wing populism in Estonia
What is behind the far-right surge in Estonia?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Estonian economy needs social imagination
Instead of following the uber-capitalism of Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia should look to Finland, which from next...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The refugee question in Europe: 'south' vs 'east'
The refugee crisis has triggered a diplomatic row between Greece and certain 'new' member-states from Central and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new reforms that are hollowing out Estonian education
Looking to make education more accountable, Estonia is in fact moving further from the idea that education should...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Estonian elections: hope for change or just more of the same?
With Estonian political parties seemingly wedded to the free-market, neoliberal policies that have defined the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?There and back again? Media freedom and autonomy in Central and Eastern Europe
Collusion between the press and politicians is not confined to western Europe. Central and Eastern European...
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Published in: HomeCharter 12: Estonia's stab at direct democracy
After Iceland, Estonia is the second European country to engage in a radically novel democratic experiment. Against...
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Published in: oDR"Political technology": why is it alive and flourishing in the former USSR?
Since the 1990s, post-Soviet elites have used manipulation, corruption and the government machine to maintain their...
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Published in: HomeXenophobia: Europe’s death knell
The Europe that is dying is the one that remains hostage to its past. Another Europe is not only possible but is in...
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Published in: HomeThe case for pragmatism: a view from Estonia
The complex realities of international politics make a wise and patient foreign-policy approach the only sensible...
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Published in: openSecurityFrance approves sale of high-tech warship to Russia
International concern about sale of French amphibious warship to Russia. US aims for new sanctions on Iran “within...