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Published in: HomeVoting doesn’t build consensus – we need a People’s Debate
With a Damocles sword hanging over UK democracy, everyone is underestimating how many people they need to listen to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Pro-Europe and anti-EU? Reviewing the far right’s view of Europe
The far right’s claim to be attached to ‘Europe’, not the EU, suggests that ‘European identity’ may pose a challenge...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Back with a vengeance? One year with the radical right in government in Austria
The FPÖ is successfully tilling the field for a radical right turn of Austria, and it seems unlikely that the party...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France’s Great Debate
One in two French citizens want to participate in Macron’s Great Debate across the French nation. High stakes for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can we please learn from history?
In their enthusiasm for a new cold war against China and Russia, the western establishments of today are making a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The fateful issue in Sweden’s autumn election was nuclear weapons
As we await the formation of the new Swedish government this week-end, one overriding issue and far too narrow an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow do we ensure that Project Hope overcomes Project Fear?
Caroline Lucas’s speech to The Convention: Think Anew, Act Anew, Another Vote is Possible, London, 11 January 2019
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Terrorism policing: the YPG/YPJ, an ally abroad but a danger at home?
The erratic treatment members of the YPG/YPJ receive at the hands of Europe’s counterterrorism networks doesn’t look...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Gentrification in Porto: will the city turn into a hotel?
Tourism is booming in Portugal, but so is housing speculation. Gentrification has been causing the displacement of...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDemocracy is facing strong headwinds in 2019
Jair Bolsonaro’s inauguration as president of Brazil marks the beginning of the political year. The redrawing of the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Polarisation with no ideological solution in sight
The increasing political polarization, a problem of the entire western world, is based on misconceptions to which...
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Published in: HomeSmall-town feminist activism in Poland
On Monday, October 3, 2016 the landscape of social movements in Poland changed. What surprised many observers and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Which municipalism? Let's be choosy
What exactly are we talking about when we refer to the “new municipalism” or “municipalist transformation” as...
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Published in: HomeWhite is the new black: populism and the academic alt-right
“It is our duty to expose this moral agenda for what it is, not by 'deplatforming' them – only adding victimisation...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Austerity is stupid, and why the powerful don’t like to admit it
We need a Progressive International whose narrative deeply penetrates this warped version of reality.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A People’s Vote without a People’s Debate won’t bring about Another Europe
An open letter to Another Europe Is Possible on the democratic component fatally lacking from the Brexit process hitherto.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘Gilets jaunes’: the meaning of the confrontation
As the ‘gilets jaunes’ movement continues after President Macron’s speech, the French philosopher examines its...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe faces a "welcoming crisis" when it comes to migrants and refugees. It's not fair.
"Anti-migrant sentiment is at fever pitch." Seeing ourselves as others see us.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘Deserving’ settlement in post-Brexit Britain: challenges posed by the settled status scheme
It's striking that the difference between the proof of continuous residence under the settlement scheme and the EU...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe need a People’s Government, not a People’s Vote
A People’s Vote with a Tory Government in occupation would also be a People’s Vote of the right, by the right, and...