Future of Europe

Spanish MP Inés Sabanés on the country’s unstable politics and the need to re-politicise everyday life.

A year and a half after the onset of the pandemic, young people are reflecting on the impact it has had on their lives.

The Greens were in the spotlight ahead of the German federal election. What were the key issues shaping public debate and where does the party stand?

Shahin Vallée and Franziska Brantner debate European democracy, transnational politics, and the meaning of sovereignty.

As the movement that politicised the relationship between society and nature in the West, green politics is at the forefront of not just democracy’s defence, but its reinvention.

Short-term fixes in times of crisis are no longer enough if the Eurozone is the key to an ever closer union.

Are the charges of being undemocratic that are consistently levelled at the European Union justified?

Bruno Latour emphasises the need for a politics of the living moving from this European-invented space to the tangible space that he calls “dwelling place”.

Prospects of EU reform are slim and austerity and Fortress Europe are set to continue. What does this mean for progressive strategies around Europe?

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.