Far Right

Defending central banks from the populist right is essential, but it must not mean endorsing their failures.

Amidst far-right instrumentalisation, can musicians play a progressive tune? Emília Barna and Melanie Schiller talk to Konrad Bleyer-Simon.

Sam Murray draws the contours of green cultural policymaking.

Across Europe, arts and culture are facing defunding, job precarity, censorship, marginalisation, and instrumentalisation by economic and political agendas. How do we assert the value of culture and protect artistic freedom in this challenging landscape? And under what conditions can culture meaningfully contribute to the ecological transformation?

This editorial introduces Acting Out: Arts and Culture Under Pressure, the winter 2025 print edition of the Green European Journal.

Fifty years after the death of the dictator, experts are split over how to educate younger generations about the legacy his ideology left.

Deep engagement with complex texts is crucial for protecting us against bias and prejudice – especially in the age of artificial intelligence.

Europe’s far-right is using children in its discourse to demonise environmentalists and gender activists. How can we challenge its rhetoric?

As our emotions are triggered and compromised in a changing world, what are the indications for our freedom?

In the shadows of academia lurks an insidious counter-revolution. A graphic story by Lakshmi Bose.

Given freedom’s mobilising potential and emotional appeal, deserting the fight over its meaning and ownership is no option for those who care about our common future.