Democracy

Youth movements have shaken up the political landscape across Europe. But countries in eastern and southern Europe saw smaller protests in 2019. We hear why from activists in Croatia.

This May’s presidential elections in Poland have been postponed for now but dilemmas remain in a political scene where cynicism permeates voter choices and perspectives.

Thirty years after Eastern European states began their transition out of socialism, the outcomes of the process are still contested.

A new emergency law has granted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán unlimited power to rule by decree. What does this mean for Hungary’s path away from democracy?

What are the prospects and challenges for Budapest under green-left leadership?

What is algorithmic governmentality? What transformations are the tech revolution catalysing in society and politics? In this in-depth conversation, legal philosopher Antoinette Rouvroy questions the drive to rationalise all aspects of life through data and sets out possibilities for alternatives.

How can Extinction Rebellion move from insurrection to renewal?

After 40 years of neoliberalism tearing at the social fabric, what form will the 21st-century counter-movement take?

A Green New Deal is good, but an ecofeminist one is even better.

Time is running out, but political ecology has the answers. A different world, a good life for all.