Democracy

As authoritarian tendencies rise, aboriginal approaches to leadership, based on shared narratives, offer a powerful alternative.

The proposed EU Media Freedom Act represents a positive change of course, but it fails to provide badly needed subsidies to quality news outlets.

When all other forms of political participation fail, protest can succeed in influencing climate policy.

Transnational parties promised to shake up EU politics before the European elections in 2019. These experiments appear to have run out of road.

Faced with the inevitable failures of populism and technocracy, politics must rediscover its practical, communal and collective dimension. With this conversation, Edouard Gaudot and Natalie Bennett introduce a new series they co-curated on leadership in crisis, and explore the alternatives that Green thinking can offer.

In a world grappling with the climate crisis, social unrest, and polarisation undermining democracy, an oasis of ideas for a better future has bloomed. It happened in Milan during the Spring School on Climate Citizens’ Assemblies. The two-day event brought to the same room the instigators of the next wave of participatory democracy that looms on the horizon. Uncover their stories, insights, and dreams for a greener tomorrow for Europe.

With countries turning to the right, progressives face the challenge of keeping their support in cities.

49 years later, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution still teaches a vital lesson to today’s democratic politics.

Coalition compromises make it harder for the Greens to commit to their climate policy goals.

European politics may be drifting to the right but progressives cannot yet be counted out of the struggle for Europe.