James Kanter

James Kanter is co-founder and editor EU Scream. For 12 years he was an EU Correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times based in Paris and Brussels.  

92 Published Articles

Transparency, Interrupted
Ursula von der Leyen's locked phone | Mass deletion of European Commission emails | Freedom of information and the Cold War | Sweden and 1766 | Regulation 1049 | Emily O'Reilly | Věra Jourová | Heidi Hautala | Reijo Kemppinen
Quick Take: Enrico Letta
Victim-shaming Italy and Spain | Making NextGenEU permanent | Global Progressive Forum | Flirting with Five Star | Technology and democracy | Fighting homophobia in Italy | Giorgia Meloni | A Schengen-model for shared migration policy
Book Club: The Scent of Wild Animals
Unidentified governing object | Mark Rutte | Renew Europe's gender problem | Janša's antisemitic trolling | Wild animals and gladiator fights | GOP and EUCO | Jan 6 and Art 7 | Populists vs progressives | Caricatures of Eastern Europe | The supine...
The Climate Allies Europe Needs
European climate diplomacy after Brexit | Allying with the vulnerable | Keeping 1.5 alive at Glasgow | The shape of the room at COP | France after the Paris Agreement | Financing for clean energy | G20 and UN | Boris Johnson's science
Book Club: The Last Bluff
Alexis Tsipras's tears | Meeting Merkel | When debt doctors disagree | Jeroen Dijsselbloem's mucky shoes | Thomas Weiser's neat ironing | Poul Thomsen and failed states | A top secret Plan B | Yanis Varoufakis has a plan too | When the banks shut ...
A Hunger Strike at the Heart of Europe
What a hunger strike feels like | A humanitarian outcry in Belgium | Lilana Keith of PICUM | Albert Kraler of Danube University Krems | Obstacles facing Afghan migrants | Pull and push effects | Sammy Mahdi | Spanish regularisations and Germany's ...
Eurocrats Who Look Like Europe
Shada Islam | Sarah Chander | Targets for white women | Missing data | A landmark survey | Colour-evasiveness | Cognitive diversity | Critical race theory | An antiracism coordinator for Europe | Neoliberal feminism | Racialization | Recruitment t...
First Aid for Polish Democracy
Adam Bodnar | Captured courts | Competitive authoritarianism | State media harassment | Ursula von der Leyen | Laurent Pech | The return of a Soviet-style judiciary | The chilling effect | Natacha Kazatchkine | Dissidents today | New ways to prote...
Why She Won't Go
Ursula von der Leyen and vaccine accountability | Mehreen Khan of the Financial Times | Hans Kundnani of Chatham House | Censuring the EC | The Pharmacist | Vaccine regionalism | German elections | Pandemic populism | Euro debtors | EU sovereignty...
Keeping the Red Flag Flying
Manon Aubry | La France Insoumise | Rebranding the Left | Rosie the Riveter | People and planet | Trade and emissions | Yellow vests | Macron’s rightward plunge | Darmanin & Le Pen | Identity politics in France | 5G phones | Gobshite | Water polo
Taking Brexit Personally
James Crisp of The Daily Telegraph | Boris Johnson's Brussels stories | Thierry Meeùs of Mini-Europe | Big on the small things | Dishonesty in Downing Street | Fuck business | The EC's good Brexit | Condom sizes | Kipper pillows | Ham sandwiches
When Conservatives Endanger Democracy
Daniel Ziblatt | Christian Democrats | US Republicans | How Democracies Die | Thuringia | Viktor Orbán | Identifying authoritarians | Diversity and democracy | Gatekeepers | Macron's balancing act | Climate and Covid-19 | Trumpism's future
Honesty Is the Best Policy
Giulia Laganà of the Open Society European Policy Institute | Avoiding appeasement | Borders and the far right | Slave labor conditions in Europe | Regularising migrants | Legal Pathways | Return sponsorships | Frontex | Detaining children | Helic...
Showdowns Over the Rule of Law
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
Europe on a Power Trip
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...
Race and the von der Leyen Commission
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...
Data & Dystopia
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...