The Catalan question is not a national question, nor a question of a nation state, but a question of democracy.
The prevalence of Islamophobia in liberal discourse is part of the mainstreaming of anti-Muslim, anti-refugee and anti-migrant racism that many believe to be the territory of the far right. Book review.
A transnational movement-party, a hotbed of grassroots democracy capable of supranational solutions – why that matters to me.
An open letter from the DiEM25 coordinating collective to members and friends, proposing a transnational political party as one of its tools for democratising Europe..
Solidarity and responsibility-sharing in this sensitive policy area are likely to draw increasingly on a more fragmented, unpredictable and bottom up set of principles and modus operandi.
Is Germany ready for a new ‘social contract’, more adequate to the global age? Or does it want to continue under the comfortable protection of a reassuring Mutti?
Everybody knows that something has changed – even here.
G20 forecasting prolongs the infinite growth paradigm into the future, while G20 backcasting draws strategic conclusions for present action leaving the paradigm still intact.
Theresa May and Brexiteers both insist on a damaging binary view of the UK and Europe.
Germany needs new narratives and policy agendas in order to energise a new politics across Europe – a politics which will reflect the common interest of the majority of Europeans.
DiEM25 needs to create a Janus-faced, progressive union out of the cooperation of every individual – individuals who in turn need to willingly relax their egos for the bigger cause.
