Mehreen Khan of the Financial Times | End game in EU's battle with Hungary and Poland | Signs of illiberalism in France | Fidesz in a mess | Garvan Walshe of article7.eu | Whither the European People's Party | Unblocking the EU's nuclear option
by James Kanter
Nathalie Tocci on strategic autonomy | Joe Biden's victory | French nukes | China Decoupling | EU majority voting | Mehreen Khan of the FT | Truth to Power | Be the Squirrel | Vaccine race | New Hanseatics | Charles Michel finds a mission | Thierr...
by James Kanter
Emilia Roig | Colour-evasiveness in France | Post-racialism in Germany | The European Commission and identity politics | Proxies and disaggregated data | Intersectionality and neutrality laws | Roma rights | Katrin Langensiepen | Black Lives Matte...
by James Kanter
Doxing on Twitter | Irantzu Varela of El Tornillo | Death threats by direct message on Facebook | Simeon Vasilev of the GLAS Foundation | Toxic Masculinity | Asha Allen of the European Women's Lobby | The EU Digital Services Act | Guillermo Beltrà...
by James Kanter
Botkyrka | Punk and Ebba Grön | The EU Asylum and Migration Pact | Greece and Turkey | The Great Replacement and toxic conspiracies | Feminist jewellery | #LoveIsEssential | Sweden Democrats | Clearview AI | Police and minorities | Algorithmic bias
by James Kanter
Ylva Johansson is done with drama queen discussions that portray migrants and refugees as an existential threat to Europe. Johansson is the European Commissioner for home affairs and she’d like to make migration a more normal issue. She’d also lik...
Mehreen Khan of the Financial Times | Diversity and Team von der Leyen | Face-painting with Didier Reynders | Protecting Europe with Margaritis Schinas | Counting colonies with Charles Michel | The Great Replacement | Racist policing | Ylva Johans...
by James Kanter
Racist policing | Gender bias | 'Black Mirror' style mass surveillance | Samira Rafaela | Joanna Bryson | Sarah Chander | Patrick Breyer | European data spaces | iBorderCtrl | Palantir Technologies and the NHS | Facial recognition | Pressure on Cl...
by James Kanter
Frans Timmermans on fighting authoritarianism | Unmasking Farage | A rebrand for Europe Day | Donald Tusk | Olivér Várhelyi | Chasing Orbán | Coronavirus and the Green Deal | Better buildings | 55 percent | Bruce Springsteen | Joseph Roth
by James Kanter
Car abatement accelerates as lockdowns ease | Pollution as a vector for the virus | Brussels urbanism chief Pascal Smet on a big bang for mobility | Mark Watts of C40 Cities on the pace of change in Amsterdam and Paris | Pollution lobbies and thei...
by James Kanter
Marco Zatterin of La Stampa | Ursula von der Leyen apologises to Italy | Lagarde's gaff | Salvini and Meloni | The spectre of Italexit | Newspapering under lockdown | Giovanni Belzoni | Poems from Ben Ray
by James Kanter
Reporters Without Borders | The role of free expression in fighting pandemics | Tracker 19 and Covid-19 | China | Hungary | Slovenia | Egypt | Ivan Bedrov of RFE/RL | Poetry from Ben Ray
by James Kanter
EC Chief Spokesperson Eric Mamer | Virtual pressers and accountability | Emily Dickinson | Coyness on Hungary | Israel Butler of Liberties | Framing in the age of the virus
by James Kanter
Věra Jourová on digital tracking and privacy | Pledging to vet Viktor Orbán | Fighting disinfo with WhatsApp and YouTube | East vs. West and face masks | Czech elections in 2023 | Madeleine Albright
by James Kanter
Joelle Grogan on emergency powers | The Spanish flu | Detentions | Suspending parliaments | Closing borders | Viktor Orbán and rule by decree | Sunset clauses | Poland and Bulgaria
by James Kanter
Michael Peel of the Financial Times | The Fabulists | The autocracy virus | European values | Muscat of Malta | Kaczyński of Poland | Orbán and Salvini | Trump at NATO | Modernizers | Historians | Existentialists
by James Kanter
Magid Magid | Europe's Biggest Bigot and Bigot-Buster awards | Kajal Odedra of Change.org | Do Something: Activism for Everyone | Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | Defenestration and democracy | Polarisation | Power mapping | Storylabbing
by James Kanter
Mehreen Khan of the FT on civilizational racism | Macron spurns the Western Balkans | Andorra versus Albania | Majlinda Bregu of the Regional Cooperation Council | Foreign fighters | The legacy of the Ottomans in Brussels
by James Kanter
For many people, Emmanuel Macron still represents the great hope for an open and liberal Europe. So what to make of the French president’s growing preoccupation with Islam, terror and security? Mehreen Khan of The Financial Times dissects Macron’s...
Beating the trolls with Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | Breaking the outrage cycle | How to Clean Up the Internet with David Babbs | Ending toxic anonymity | Rebutting the cyber-libertarians
by James Kanter
Far-right trolls often target women and minorities and seek to subvert the work of politicians, journalists and activists. But technology platforms and their supporters tend to resist the kinds of legislation that could help tame the trolls. Effec...
Novelist and commentator Ahdaf Soueif | Losing the Mezzaterra | Resigning from the British Museum | The Cold War roots of terror | EU-funded authoritarianism in Egypt | The persistence of racist thinking
by James Kanter
André Wilkens on taking culture wars seriously | The case of Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska | Marta Keil on threats to Polish museums and theatres | Croatia's Oliver Frljić versus Poland's Piotr Gliński | Fiction
by James Kanter
