The rise of PSOE to government does not guarantee deep political change in Spain, but it makes Unidos Podemos a central actor, for Sánchez needs its support.
Italy's head of state, while predominantly a governor-general figure rather than a president in the American sense, is willing to have a go at riding the populists out.
Electoral considerations aside, for now, many of those who fought so hard for this day to come will take comfort from being able to oust the PP from power. Español
"The European Union is inherently racist, unchanging, technocratic and oppressive. Nothing makes any of those things okay, not even a nice conversation, or falling in love with a French girl."
Unable to generate a domestic consensus and powerless to counter the priorities dictated by the euro, social democracy must continue to fail at home while divisions among EU nations deepen.
While Europe’s renewed rightwards turn presents the Left with a range of difficult challenges, it also creates opportunities. Español
In 2017, Europe observed a 4-fold increase in measles cases compared to 2016.
Failure is not an option. The alternative path is simply too costly, not only for the present generation, but for posterity as well. …
Rather than abandoning institutions like the European Union and Facebook, we should push them to act more like democracies.
Reflections on a dystopian future which might be becoming a reality, reflecting the dreams and hopes of political extremists.
Opposition voters may be left party-less in the Hungarian two-party system unless opposition politicians carry out a project similar, at least in its logic, to that implemented by Viktor Orbán.
“Let’s agree on essentials: on what liberalism is and isn’t, on how liberalism is failing and on how much tougher liberals ought to be in their own defence.”
