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With thousands dying in the Mediterranean, migrants and refugees have started coming to Europe by land. And countries in the East aren’t happy.
Refugee Week is drawing to a close with little concrete progress. Can I at least get you to change your mind about this situation?
Helle Thorning-Schmidt has lost the Danish election. But her rivals on the right are not exactly prepped to take office.
Impressionistic, subjective snapshots of complex societies are best avoided. And yet when you actually get the chance to live somewhere – even briefly – like most forms of temptation it is difficult to…
Ruling AKP gets a hammering at the polls as pro-Kurdish HDP enters parliament for first time.
With plans to shake up democracy, it’s no wonder the HDP is being compared to Syriza and Podemos.
Both sides appear to be breaking the terms of the ceasefire, while the people of Ukraine struggle to survive.
With a steady hollowing out of membership, the cosying up to vested interests with pockets deep enough to maintain party, today’s political parties barely “represent”.
A shift to the right in Poland in an election that signals tough times ahead for the government.
The UK is refusing to take just 2,000 refugees to help tackle the crisis in the Mediterranean. And it puts the EU on a knife edge.
It might actually be better for the Conservatives to work with Nigel Farage in government.
The rise of left-wing populism challenges those who flatly denounced right-wing populism as undemocratic. Populism can appear as a democratic force in some contexts and anti-democratic in others.
The SNP, Plaid Cymru and UKIP are the new faces in the UK election in 2015 but they reflect a wider change.
After four years of a government that put itself at the centre of the EU, Finland has dramatically changed course.
Will Spain’s general election really be an anti-austerity wave – or something much more messy?
While Silvio Berlusconi has shown himself to be adept at transferring business organisational and marketing skills to politics, Clive Palmer has appeared completely out of his depth in this sense.
Europe still hasn’t figured out how to identify or help refugees.
It is bitterly ironic that in this, the 800th anniversary year of Magna Carta, there are threats from the UK to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. This convention is Europe’s own Magna…
There is something rather appropriate about Greece being at the centre of the European Union’s growing political and economic crises. Greece, after all, is the historical home of democracy and foundation…
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