Democracy

Mehreen Khan and a cast of shibboleths | Gildeadites and Ephraimites | Europe is diverse | Europe has been too naïve | Europe is green | Europe isn’t protectionist | Europe is humane to migrants | Europe has defeated populism | Defining separatism

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

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

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...

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

Climate radicalisation | Legitimacy crisis | Energy prices | Don't blame the green transition | Disquiet over Glasgow | Bombshell in Copenhagen | Alliances in Durban | Threat multiplier | Climate refugees and populism | Denmark migration conversation

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Ursula von der Leyen appears secure in her job as president of the European Commission. That's despite a troubled vaccine rollout in which delayed deliveries can cost lives and livelihoods. But preserving the status quo in Brussels comes at a cost...

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

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

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

Conference on the Future of Europe | Warnings in the Capitol Riot | Alberto Alemanno | Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield | Intelligibility | Covid and the German presidency | Orbán's end game | Social media as an EU platform | Ursula and original sin

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...