Democracy

What can be done to reconcile technological progress and civic democracy?

An interview with Green Party of England & Wales co-leader & MP Caroline Lucas.

Can Austria and Portugal provide clues as to which conditions are needed for progressive forces to flourish?

A discussion with Ralf Fücks, outgoing president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, on the situation in Germany, coalitions with Merkel & the rise of the AfD.

What was the Italian referendum on constitutional reforms really about?

Green Mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle on involving citizens in how their city is governed.

How has the significance of democracy changed, and why do elections not stimulate the same pre-vote frenzy and post-result calm that they use to, and are supposed to?

Brexit has been a shock. It wasn’t the European Union that smashed the trade unions, depleted Britain’s social housing stock and then went on an orgy of privatisation, but Brexit has handed complete, unregulated control over to those who did, and the potential consequences reach far beyond Britain’s borders.

This spring students in Amsterdam occupied their university, sparking similar protests in many other cities from the UK, to Canada, to Montenegro. What was the cause of this unrest and how did the protest come about? A reconstruction.

Since the outset, the ‘Franco-German engine’ has been the driving force in the European construction process.