Alexis Tsipras’s government imposed years of suffering on Greeks, only to let the conservatives back into power. Rebuilding the fight against austerity could take years — and will be impossible without a direct confrontation with the European Union.
The Greek election results were, first and (...)
A new five-party coalition government was formally appointed in Finland earlier this month, led by Prime Minister Antti Rinne. Rinne’s Social Democratic Party narrowly won legislative elections in mid-April with only 17.7 percent of the vote, leading it to partner with four smaller parties to (...)
The “renewal” of the Social Democrats in Romania offers little. Upcoming party leaders are committed to liberalism, and will only struggle for a few social reforms to keep the voters happy.
1. Failing against all odds
Just as the polls were announcing a crushing defeat for the Romanian (...)
Smiles from the Greens, triumph for Salvini and Farage, possible resignation from German Social Democratic leader and forced elections for Tsiprias in Greece – these reactions sum up the main features of the recent European Elections. Ten per cent more people voted that in the previous (...)
Efforts to tackle abuse have brought the platform into collision with the government
The denunciation filled the front page of one of Hungary’s main newspapers. “Facebook has become a political actor,” declared the pro-government Magyar Nemzet, the latest attack in an escalating campaign against (...)
Recently, relatively new political actors in Romania announced their intention to run for the upcoming elections of a new European Parliament. Their profiles could not be more different but they share nonetheless a common feature that neatly expresses the systemic and terminal crisis of post-communist Romanian politics. Rather than representing a break with the old order, the articulation of these new (...)
‘Watershed’ moment for island as Niyazi Kızılyürek campaigns on AKEL-led reunification ticket.
A Turkish Cypriot candidate is set for the first time to win a seat in next month’s European parliament elections in what is already being hailed a watershed moment for the partitioned island.
In a (...)
The candidate of the extra-parliamentary party “Progressive Slovakia” Zuzana Čaputová is the new president of the country. Despite her victory, the extreme right manages to set the tone for political debate.
The news that Slovakia will be headed by a woman for the first time travelled around all (...)
Bulgaria has the worst air pollution in Europe. The state is actually reducing its investments to clean up pollution. In this context of indifference, the poor majority suffer from high rates of sickness and premature death. Rather than targeting cynical corporations and an indifferent state, (...)
Slovenia is often presented as a success story among post-Yugoslav republics. Perceived as one of the most successful transition economies, Slovenia also has a status of a country immune to political extremism. Nevertheless, the refugee crisis in 2015., although without demographic consequences (...)
Joke Schauvliege falsely claimed state agencies had evidence that children’s climate change protests were a ‘set-up’
A Belgian environment minister has been forced to resign after falsely claiming the country’s intelligence services held evidence that children skipping school to demonstrate over (...)
“We don’t expect much from anyone,” said Marko Alviž, a worker at Croatia’s biggest shipyard, Uljanik, at the beginning of November. At the time, he and most of his 4000 fellow workers were still waiting for their September salaries. The level of optimism amongst the workers was low.
Alviž has (...)
In 2015 the international left invested its hopes in Syriza and its promise of a break with austerity. Today, it must call out the repression of social movements in Greece by Alexis Tsipras’s government.
One of the myths spread by the Greek government and its supporters abroad is that, unlike (...)
The outcome of the recent Slovenian elections shows a fragmented political landscape, a worrying increase in support for right-wing populism and luckily, an electoral gain for the left’s Levica party that has strengthened its position and improved its manoeuvring space.
On 3 June Slovenia went (...)
Jose Miguel Arenas Beltrán’s jail sentence for ‘glorifying terrorism’ had caused outcry
A Spanish court has issued an international arrest warrant for a rapper who is thought to have fled the country to avoid jail for songs that threatened a politician, glorified terrorism and insulted the crown. (...)
During the 18th century, philosophers from Western European kingdoms have elaborated a thought system that shifted the position of the North on the traditional knowledge axis. From this process of epistemic change took shape the idea of the West as structural identity, born from the ruins of (...)
On the 17th of November 2017, the majority party in the Romanian parliament, the Social Democrats (PSD) issued a statement condemning the existence and practices of the Romanian “parallel state.” This strange notion, with its mysterious air of 1950s spy movies, had already made the headlines in (...)
On September 24, 2017, the spectacular losses of the Christian-conservative CDU / CSU parties and the Social Democratic SPD forming up to now the governing grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), and the dramatic success of the AfD with a nationalist, racist, ultra-conservative (...)
The centre has collapsed and the result is a serious advance for the far right. Hope is not lost, though, argues Kevin Ovenden
For the first time since 1953 a far right, extreme racist party with a large fascist wing has entered the German parliament. That was expected given the polls.
But (...)
Slovakia’s far right is successful because of the retreat of class politics in the country.
On March 5, Slovak voters elected fourteen neo-fascists to parliament. They ran under the banner of People’s Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) — a party that openly lays claim to the legacy of the Nazi-aligned (...)
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