Not That Ambassador
Anthony L. Gardner on the EU and Ukraine | "Stars With Stripes” | Brexit’s toll on Europe | Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage | Ursula von der Leyen’s geopolitical Europe | Internationalising the euro | Belgian pralines
Tiptoeing Around the Far Right
Alberto Alemanno on lobbying the far right | Maris Hellrand on slacktivism | Heather Grabbe on red lines | Benedikt Herges of Siemens on the dangers for corporates | Michiel van Hulten on transparency
Trumpworld in Europe
Christian legal armies on the march | Mary Fitzgerald of openDemocracy | CitizenGO and VOX | Cake case goes to the European Court of Human Rights | Blaž Zgaga on faith-based lobbying and invisible donors
Bianca’s Story
Rape, fertility, and magical thinking among Romanian priests | A Socialist leader denies gender equality | A medical chief mocks affordable abortion | Bianca’s story | No terminations before Christmas and Easter
Abortion Wars
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
Don’t Be Complacent
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
Being Muslim
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
White Power in Estonia
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
Disenfranchised
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
Meanwhile on Planet Varoufakis
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