Far Right

How do extreme far-right ideas travel from the fringes to the fore of political discourse?

Fanni Svégel on attempts to engineer a baby boom that never came – and their harmful effects on women.

If electoral outcomes increasingly reflect unequal participation and representation, what does this mean for the Left and for democracy?

When politics is reactive and short-sighted, culture can help Europe imagine a better future and offer a sense of common purpose.

Though they have been fertile ground for disinformation, power outages can also open discussions about our energy infrastructure.

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.