“I want a strategy that responds to the ideas, the fears, and even the dreams of the European citizens, the young and the older generations”, Federica Mogherini, 2015.
Social democracy has been limited to understanding market principles and redistribution as ways of serving the interests of people. Now is the time to better understand the principle of reciprocity.
Polanyi’s views were the exact opposite of his contemporary, Joseph Schumpeter, who famously defined democracy as giving people a choice over which elite group would rule over them.
Nothing will be as good outside the EU as LEAVE suggests: the world won't collapse as REMAIN implies. It is a gigantic distraction, deliberately engineered by competing parts of the elite.
Will young people in Austria vote for the youthful far-right candidate Norbert Hofer or his septuagenarian rival, Alexander Van der Bellen?
The systematic detention of asylum seekers in the UK has reached the end of the track. The Home Office needs to let go, and invest the savings in a fast, high quality asylum process.
Can it be achieved from within existing political institutions, or does it require new sources of power to be built in society and the economy as a base for new political institutions?
Current proposals for European cooperation with Libya to contain migration and refugee flows are ill-advised.
This book is not just illuminating. It is a call to moral awakening and to intelligent, determined and humane political action.
