Interviews

MEP & digital commons expert Julia Reda addresses the pertinent question of who owns what is online.

A panel of five experts discuss the ambivalent relationship between the state and the commons.

Green Mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle on involving citizens in how their city is governed.

Tine De Moor takes us through the historical context of the commons.

An interview with Benjamin de Cleen on nationalism versus populism in Europe, the Flemish far-right, and the limits of the cordon sanitaire.

LabGov, the Laboratory for the governance of the commons in Italy, aims to foster innovative forms of public collaboration in the city of Bologna and beyond.

Big data, surveillance politics, & what we learned from Snowden.

Joanna Maycock explains why women’s rights are first in the firing line in times of crisis.

Between Brexit and the rise of illiberal democracies the pressure to reorient the European project has never been more intense.

The anti-government protests in Poland seem quite disconnected from the legacy of Solidarity, which seems to have been left behind, while it remains to be seen whether the emergence of new political actors signals a genuine shift in the political landscape. An interview with Sociologist Jan Sowa by Claudia Ciobanu.