"Mattarella’s decision is bad for Italy, Germany, and Europe. The only political force which is likely to profit is the Northern League."
The job of those talking to everyone – all professional media, print online radio and television – is to let everyone talk.
This is probably part of the intention of the European Commission… not only to outsource migration control to other countries but to put its obvious consequences for human lives out of sight.
Can President Macron save the EU as a legitimate liberal institution, through a deliberate re-politicisation of European politics? What he attempts also has the potential to destroy it.
By securitizing migration, EU leaders have appeared to address the needs of European audiences more than those of Libyan stakeholders
Under political pressure, the president of the University of Verona has suspended a day-long workshop on “themes that are politically and ethically controversial such as migration and sexual orientation”…
Rojava is a project born of a historical experience, built and fought for by people who have understood that the only future is that which begins today.
Neoliberal globalization has increased both economic insecurity and cultural anxiety. Have theories of populism taken adequate account of such insecurity – key to understanding the difference between right and left populisms?
What should post-Brexit governance look like in the UK? What is needed, urgently, is for this to be politically addressed head on.
If we are faced with an implosion of liberal democracy – as I believe – then the challenge we face is that of reinventing liberal democracy.
The fear is that populism, Italian style, has achieved power. But neoliberal policies rule more than ever, tinged with populism, opening the way to Lega’s far-right, racist (and neoliberal) politics.
These polarising terms should be shelved, and taken out only when we are discussing political philosophy, which most of the time, we are not.
