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

Disinformation in Perspective
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
Climate and Populism
populism
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
Smeared
orban europe
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
Weber the Enabler
orban weber
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
It Could Have Been Different
euro crisis
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
Keep an Open Mind
open mind eu scream
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
Eur♀pe
European feminism
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!"
Trade Storms
european union
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
Good Riddance
keep calm
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
Let It Go
frozen macron juncker
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
Yellow Vests, Green Europe
Guzman Lozano, Ampelmann, modified by EU Scream, Creative Common 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
Bas Eickhout on how smarter climate policies can avoid more protest movements like the Yellow Vests | A lawmaker in charge of writing opinions for a European Parliament committee denies climate science | Poland pushes Big Coal at UN climate confer...
Badass Communication
Proud Bear on satirizing suspected Russian meddling in the Brexit referendum | Anu Bradford on British delusions | James and Tom on where hardcore Brexiteers got their funds and why the EU is such a hard sell
Mad About France
Marine le Pen, far-right, extremism
David Ibsen of the Counter Extremism Project focuses on the new generation of white supremacists in France | James and Tom discuss whether Marine Le Pen should keep her appointment with a government psychiatrist
Migrating From the Truth
EU migration, Photo by Aleks Dahlberg on Unsplash modified by EU Scream
Migration expert Karen Mets unpicks Lauren Southern's anti-refugee antics | Campaigner Lyudmyla Kozlovska describes how far-right trolls sought to pass her off as Christine Blasey Ford | James and Tom talk about fighting Matteo Salvini's incivilit...
Homonationalism in Germany
Photo by Vikas Khogre on Unsplash, modified by EU Scream, Homonationalism, LGBT in Germany, AfD, far-right, Photo by Vikas Khogre on Unsplash, modified by EU Scream
Berlin-based queer activist Aileen Kakavand explains how hypocrites in the far-right Alternative for Germany party stoke fear of Islam to court the LGBT community | James and Tom talk pop stars, populism and politics
Enemies of Multiculturism
Bolkestein Directive, multiculturalism, integration of migrants, Orban Brussels, Wilders, Mark Rutte European Council
Conservative liberal Frits Bolkestein reflects on whether his loathing for multiculturalism paved the way for Orban and Wilders | Post-match analysis | James and Tom focus on a far-right cell in Flanders and on race-baiting in Brussels