Beppe Grillo doesn’t suffer fools gladly – why did he ally with UKIP then?
The Front National has long been at the centre of pan-European party initiatives, which were always dominated by former FN leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. The EAF was founded without FN-involvement, however.
The success of eurosceptic parties at the 2014 European elections was expected to mark a paradigm shift in both national and European politics. As the dust begins to settle, the eurosceptic wave may not be the catalyst for change many feared or hoped for.
Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement has formed an alliance in the European Parliament with Nigel Farage's UKIP. We should have seen this coming.
Last year’s mass protests in Romania and Bulgaria gave citizens a taste of how together they can transform public life. Some are asking for more.
Who are the people voting for Podemos? An analysis of election data reveals some surpising results.
On the crucial question of EU reform, reframing the European debate can actually facilitate, rather than obstruct, substantive changes in policy. Substance vs narrative is a false dichotomy.
European citizens through a democratic process or national governments and lobbies? Will Europe integrate and renew democratic legitimization, or remain a loose economic association of neoliberal experimentation?
The monarchy in Spain is an institution that is intimately linked with the fascist regime of General Franco. Spain’s democrats must now push for the return of the republic more than ever.
The extraordinary electoral success of Podemos, given its short trajectory, has had the greatest repercussion because it threatens the electoral strategies of almost all major players in Spain.
The King is dead! Long live the giddy baby elephant of the people!
After 39 years on the throne, Juan Carlos de Borbón has announced his abdication of the Spanish Crown in favor of his son, Felipe. But with leftist, republican and independence movements brewing, could Felipe be the last King of Spain?
