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The Podcast on Europe and its Political Extremes
Energy prices have exploded as a result of the Trump Administration's war on Iran. It's another opportunity for Europe to shield i...
Tech bros like to blabber about AI and the end of the world. But the more plausible catastrophe they'll unleash is severe inequality an...
European leaders are failing to pushback against racist messaging from the Trump Administration, signaling their acceptance of a new geopoli...
Germany and Sweden are among states deploying troops to Greenland. Yet Trump's power play for the island in the wake of his Venezuela r...
Since returning to the White House on Jan. 20, Donald Trump has imposed one-sided tariffs on the European Union, forced the bloc to commit t...
The lurch rightwards in our politics has brought a wave of disinformation and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and inter...
The buzzword in Brussels is simplification . In reality it’s a euphemism for sweeping deregulation and it marks a dramatic U-turn for the Eu...
Three years ago, as part of efforts to weaken Putin's war chest, the EU banned imports of Russian crude oil. But those countries with a...
There is an expanding landscape of lies, distortions, and half-truths shaping global politics. The latest instance is the immediate blame he...
The recent European heatwave killed some 2,300 people with more than half of deaths attributable to human-caused climate change. But what if...
Millions of people in more than a hundred countries march at Pride festivities each year. Attendees come mostly to express support for lesbi...
An initial wave of support for Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in which Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages has been eclip...
Call it the real nuclear option for bringing Viktor Orbán's Hungary to heel — but also call it a risky thought experiment. Tom Theuns o...
Musk, Zuckerberg and Vance have stomped into the EU's canteen, overturned the tables, smashed the glasses, and drawn their pistols. The...
Following the horrors of Nazism, the post-war far right needed to proceed strategically, and patiently, if it was ever to stage a comeback....
There are many more politicians and policymakers from the far right on our TVs, in our social media feeds, and in our legislatures. They hav...
Big Tech bosses. Their immensely profitable corporations. And the fabulously wealthy venture capitalists who fund them. They are gaining pow...
Close your eyes. Imagine a young person you know and care about. Picture them at age 90. And then think about the kind of world you want to...
There's a lot of talk right now about future generations. Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission says she'll create a por...
Border violence. Hostage diplomacy. Vaccine purchases. Just some of the areas where opaqueness in EU decision-making can erode public trust...
How did politics long deemed unacceptable go mainstream so quickly? Pundits have blamed disinformation, social media and growing distrust of...
Ireland and Spain are to grant formal recognition to a Palestine state as soon as this month. The move puts Dublin and Madrid at odds with m...
Abortion is a deal breaker for some voters. That's the case in the US where Joe Biden is making Donald Trump pay a political price for...
What's the best approach to fighting the hard right? Suppressing toxic views? Or contesting them publicly? The answer lies in the middl...
Some people love Eurovision. Others don't get it. But beyond the camp and kitsch of the annual song contest there's much to observ...
Opposition to French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura performing at the Paris Olympics is whipped up by the "fachosphère" in France. The former he...
Donald Trump wanted to buy it; Mette Frederiksen said it wasn't for sale. Greenland and its ownership is for Greenlanders to decide, th...
Frontex, the EU border and coast guard, is the bloc's best funded agency costing upwards of a billion euros a year. There are plans for...
The world is growing more violent. Worst affected countries include Myanmar, Syria and Mexico as well as those experiencing more obvious cri...
Markus Becker of Der Spiegel describes a developing situation in Germany where the popularity of the far-right AfD party has surged over the...
Terry Reintke unhesitatingly describes some EU lawmakers with anti-European and far-right views as fascists. Her directness stands in sharp...
The prospect of a wider conflict with Russia under a scenario where Donald Trump is back in the White House has spooked Europe. Thierry Bret...
Mario Draghi is the obvious candidate to be the next president of the European Council. The job involves leading the meetings of EU heads of...
Jacques Delors passed away this week. He was the longest serving president of the European Commission. But what made Delors such a towering...
Big Meat had a good year in Europe. Plans to set emission limits for large-scale cattle farms were scrapped. Rules requiring landowners to r...
EU industrial policy for silicon chips to space technologies to electric vehicles too often seems to rely on Europeans prevailing in a globa...
The problem of X as a source of hate and a threat to democracy is back at the top of the policy agenda. Elon Musk's social media platfo...
We need to talk about a Far Right EU. Nativists and ultraconservatives are being actively courted by the European mainstream including at th...
Europeans are comfortable talking about whiteness in the American context. But when it comes to their own continent, not so much. That serve...
News from Spain where a far-right political party called Vox lost seats in the recent general election. Vox are culture warriors in the moul...
Polish state media still is treated as a legitimate public service by European authorities. Yet many Poles refer to it as a factory of hate....
Philippe Lamberts is advancing one of the most progressive agendas ever to reach the upper echelons of the EU power structure. This month th...
Conveniently at the heart of the EU Qatargate corruption scandal is a rogue NGO. Conveniently, that is, for EU officials and lawmakers who d...
Families can go wrong. And unless you've been under a rock these last weeks, you'll know that a number of members of the Socialist...
Putin's barbarism is somehow felt by us all even though it can be hard to get to grips with the magnitude of what's at stake. One...
The European Parliament is reeling from corruption allegations involving the Gulf state of Qatar. Members' offices have been sealed. Ra...
The European Union wants India as a strategic ally. And India loves the positive attention it's getting from Europe. Both sides are try...
Decolonisation is a new way of confronting racism. It means rooting out colonial-era attitudes of white superiority that linger in our socie...
Georgia Meloni was 19 and speaking to French TV when she praised Italian dictator and Hitler ally Mussolini. Back then the likely next prime...
There are many things to love about France. But a stated policy of colour blindness is not one of them. Among those leading the charge again...