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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s new minimum income scheme: a victory and a historic failureThis could be the most significant test of Spain’s fairness as a society.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yemen’s war and the blackout in the Spanish press“Public opinion in western countries has been quite incapable of applying the necessary pressure to cut our ties...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightSpain’s radical right party might need some recovery from the coronavirusNeither widespread popular disaffection with the government nor equally widespread disenchantment with the European...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Coronavirus, fake news, and the future of the Spanish leftCoronavirus has offered a taster of what is to come in this parliamentary term for the PSOE-Podemos coalition.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the edges of democracy: mobilizing health and care as a common goodIn the moment of the ‘corona crisis’, autocratic tendencies are cropping up, hitting those who are the least...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Galicia: Spain’s forgotten stateless nationWhat do the Galicians want? 47 people leave Galicia every day. But they won an MP in the November election, who can...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration tourniquet comes full circleFor every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rise of the far right in SpainA revival of far-right sentiment is currently gripping Spain.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia mon amourIn which the author goes in pursuit of sanity, and is forced to take a stand.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightVOX and the rhetoric of gender violenceThe far-right party’s behaviour has been very controversial, to say the least, in many aspects concerning women’s issues.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s response to protests is a dangerous step towards authoritarianism“The reality is a democratic mass movement increasingly frustrated with successive governments who have sought...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and the paradox of unity“This polarisation between two forceful pressures towards unity is leaving many people like me without any options.” Español
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mortal remains: Spain and the legacy of FrancoThe removal of Franco’s body following 16 years of campaigning and legal battles can only be a first step on the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe memory of Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still aliveThose who defend statues meant to assert dominance have yet to learn the lessons of the past.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Three nights with the citizens of GironaA general strike had been called across Catalonia and somewhere down there, winding through the new town on the far...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFrom Hong Kong, to Beirut, to Quito, to Barcelona, the frustration extends throughout the world.Frustration is growing and often turning into urban violence. There are a number of reasons why this is happening...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spanish nationalism loses the plotThe English nationalism unleashed by Brexit is not the same as the Spanish nationalism unleashed by the Catalan...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightBeers for Spain and Instagram: VOX and the youth voteVOX knows how important young people are for their political goals so they cherish and pamper their junior supporters.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spain’s politicised legal system on trialThis is not fascism, but it is postfascism. The degree to which the law is used and abused for political purposes in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why won't the European Parliament let these three Catalan MEPs in?If these three Catalan MEPs are not allowed to participate in the next legislature, Europe will have lost more than...
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