European Elections 2019

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

Where do the Finnish Greens stand after entering a progressive coalition government in 2019? Part of our four-part “Green Wave” series.

With government negotiations still up in the air, we hear how the Irish Greens bounced back in 2019 and 2020. Part of our four-part “Green Wave” series.

Understanding where Belgium’s two Green parties, Groen and Ecolo, sit in a divided political landscape. Part of our four-part “Green Wave” series.

How the Greens managed to become a key player in German politics. Part of our four-part “Green Wave” series.

After its success at the 2019 European elections, can the French Greens break their pattern of constantly rising and falling green waves?

In a France dominated by leaders without movements and rocked by movements without leaders, can political ecology build on EU election success to help fix the crisis of representation?

Research debunks the myth that far-right parties across Europe share a stance of climate denialism. But what might rising ‘climate nationalism’ mean?

A month on from the national, regional and EU elections in Belgium and the dust is still settling. How did the Greens fare and what possibilities lie ahead?

Sociologist Karolina Wigura calls for a move from the pervasive politics of fear which has seen the rise of the far-right to a politics with a positive vision based on hope.