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Pressure on women intensifies in Croatia, Romania and Poland | European elections give reproductive bullies a boost | Plastic embryos at the European Parliament | Pro-choice and LGBT face a common enemy

Tony Blair | Taking on nationalist populists and winning | Europe still lacks “sense of itself" | Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | The far right and extreme right in the new European Parliament | Milkshaking MEPs

Tony Blair shares his two-pronged formula for taking on nationalist populists — and winning. He says Britain is making a "profound historical mistake” by capitulating to the Brexiteers. But he has a stern message for Europe too: do more to stand u...

Nuseir Yassin of Nas Daily | Vlogging against discrimination and religious misconceptions | Mehreen Khan of The Financial Times | Orientalism in 2019 | Europe fumbles its relations with its Muslim inhabitants

Estonia's prime minister partners with white supremacists | Campaigners respond with pink spittle | Broadcaster Ahto Lobjakas faces censorship and threats | Kõigi Eesti seek to preserve respect and inclusion | Cas Mudde on EKRE

Seventeen million European Union residents blocked from the ballot | Symbolic voting in Berlin with Demokratie in Der Mitte | Séverine Lenglet of Citizens For Europe | Lucy Thomas of Give Something Back to Berlin

Yanis Varoufakis accuses Juncker and Salvini of evil dancing | Eleni Varvitsioti recalls the Greek bailout | DiEM25's €2.5 trillion election pledge | Pamela Anderson on activism | Tribute to Jarvis Cocker

Yanis Varoufakis is the leftist former Greek finance minister who tried and failed to end austerity. Like him or loathe him, Varoufakis is worth a look ahead of EU elections where centrists are struggling to compete with the far right’s clear and ...

Professor Christine Neuhold on the Maastricht Debate | Real and surreal European politics | An evening on Planet Europe with Pelle Christy | Violeta Tomić versus political animals | Jan Zahradil has Big Fun

Carl Dolan of Transparency International | Marine Le Pen and misuse of EU party funds | Holding far-right populist governments to account | MEP Watch | Making European Parliament voting records available to campaign groups

In conversation with Margrethe Vestager | Huawei and China | Climate protection and yellow vests | Red lines for Liberals | Selective tax breaks | Addressing nationalists and speaking from the heart | Beatles vs. Rolling Stones

Margrethe Vestager is the European Union antitrust enforcer who's earned global recognition for pushing Silicon Valley giants like Apple, Google and Facebook to treat consumers and competitors fairly. Last month she put herself in the running to ...

Historian Heidi Tworek on News from Germany | Information warfare in the run-up to Nazism | Lessons for the age of Google, Facebook and Twitter | Social media's Code of Practice and European Parliament elections

This episode of EU Scream aired a couple of weeks ago amid expectations Europe’s conservatives would expel Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary and his Fidesz party for violating the rule of law and insulting EU leaders. Last week the European P...

The uses and abuses of climate policy by parties on Europe's far right | The UK Independence Party and denial of climate science | Le Pen whips up fear of climate refugees | The view from the European Parliament with Bas Eickhout

Viktor Orbán's smear campaigns | Stories and analysis from Márta Pardavi and Péter Krekó in Hungary | European Parliamentarian Judith Sargentini still under pressure from Budapest | How to pronounce foie gras

Manfred Weber's reluctance to boot Viktor Orban from the European People's Party | Heather Grabbe, Axel Voss, Anett Bősz, Judith Sargentini, Laurent Pech on Fidesz and Europe | James and Tom on nicknames for Michel Barnier and Matteo Renzi

Barry Eichengreen discusses The Populist Temptation | The eminent economic historian sees strong links between austerity and rise of far-right | Brussels advised to pare back fiscal rules and IMF dinged for being supine

Heather Grabbe presents survey findings showing the wide range of values European have in common | Soundous Boualam talks to James and Tom about confronting prejudice and giving the European Union more of a human face

Corinna Hörst on Angela Merkel and Brussels policymaking | Jeanne Ponté on #MeTooEP and German conservative pushback | Joanna Maycock on feminist satire and the far-right's agenda for women | "Love Yodel! Hate Fascism!"

Banners and slogans celebrating tolerance and equality make the European Quarter of Brussels look like a civil rights nirvana. The truth is more complicated. There is a critical lack of racial diversity in the institutions that run the European Un...

Arancha Gonzalez says "conscious consumers" can help save trade | Reinhard Bütikofer expects Donald Trump to slap tariffs on Europe's cars | Lorenzo Marsili reimagines the EU-Canada deal | James and Tom get the munchies

China, Donald Trump, and discontent after financial and debt crises that exploded last decade are buffeting trade. The European Union frequently finds itself at the center of these storms. Arancha Gonzalez, the chief of staff to Pascal Lamy when h...

Mujtaba Rahman says nationalist populists are poised to infiltrate democratic decision-making in Brussels | Roland Freudenstein and Martin Mycielski reflect on hate and violence in Poland | James and Tom say good riddance to far-right UK lawmakers

Corina Stratulat assesses Macron-style participatory democracy | Laura Sullivan says the process of consulting citizens only works if authorities Let It Go | James and Tom on EU acronyms and abbreviations