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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexit and the British constitution: it doesn't work
If Parliament is sovereign and wants to vote, it votes. If someone else (the government) is in a position to “give”...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A very English take on Denmark
“Here’s also why Brexit happened. Europe is a mystery. Europeans come from a faraway land. Australia is nearer.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yellow fever in France
Almost everyone agrees on the analysis of what caused this movement: the growth of inequalities, the marginalization...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Marching with Dabrowski – what the centenary of Polish Independence can tell us about the radical right?
“I could not think of a better way to grasp what is behind the nationalist frenzy than to take part in their public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Labour's Brexit trilemma: in search of the least bad outcome
The great irony of Brexit is that most outcomes will lead to a loss of sovereignty and democracy. But there is a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBrexit Citizens Assembly: rising to the United Kingdom's crisis in democracy
On Brexit, as with every other big issue, the future will be negotiated not imposed.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The antisemitic turn of the “Alternative for Germany” party
The AfD wants to use Israel to exploit the false notion that whoever is pro-Israel could not be antisemitic, and to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yellow Vests – the first battle
They want Macron to know that they are the people and they will be ignored no longer. So perhaps there is democracy...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Demands of France's yellow vests as uploaded by France Bleu, November 29
"MPs from France, we inform you of the People's Directives for you to transpose them into LAW. "
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What next for the Gilets Jaunes?
The movement today is national, and in part nationalistic, very difficult to talk to about the reform of Europe....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Message from Commercy: the time of the communes still rings out!
Commercy's Yellow Vests offer a political solution to the movement: autonomous local committees, direct democracy,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The double standards applied to academic freedom
The political right is not only cracking down on academic freedoms, but has started simultaneously to become a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA People's Vote without a referendum
There is an alternative way of "letting the people decide" on an issue where MPs seem incapable of agreeing a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fortress Europe: Macron hikes university fees for non-EU students
The students that the government is hoping to dissuade from studying in France are the young people of its former...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On extremism and democracy in Europe: three years later
This introduction to the updated Greek edition of the 2016 book brings to its thought-provoking chronological...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime to talk some Brexit sense
Let us have an end to fighting the referendum campaign ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Now is the time to get real.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Against a second Brexit referendum
The British people, failed by their natural representative, the Labour Party, opted for the nationalist radicalism...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The myth of the Will of the People
Populism lives by the thought that the presence of the people in government is sufficient to wrest control from an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTheresa May spokesman sparks fresh suspicion of British ‘spying’ on EU officials
Unguarded comments about "intelligence", "transcriptions of conversations" and knowing "what the Europeans are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brexit – the big swindle, a European view
We need to understand better why citizens’ rights have become, together with the Northern Irish question, such an...