Politics

What will the coming months and years bring for the Polish political scene?

Australia is one of the countries most affected by climate change, and yet it is also one of the worst-performing countries when it comes to climate action.

Political differences between Germany and Central Europe cannot continue to be skirted if the EU is to effectively respond to the many challenges ahead.

Majoritarian systems always disenfranchise somebody. Instead, what politics should do empower people and communities to come to decisions as one.

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

In Poland the incumbent right-wing Law and Justice party, backed by the Catholic Church, demonised LGBT organisations in its recent successful electoral campaign. Adam Ostolski spoke to feminist activist and scholar Agnieszka Graff about why gender politics have become central to Polish politics, taking a step back to analyse how the Right’s scapegoating of gender is a response to the same set of social issues that the Left attributes to neoliberalism.

Greta has forced the change up the Czech political agenda. But how the debate will change the country’s path is still uncertain.

Prospects of EU membership are on hold in North Macedonia, despite it going as far as to change its name to resolve a dispute with Greece.

From appealing across the rural-urban divide to new electoral coalitions, the lessons from Austria’s election are relevant for green and progressive parties all over Europe.

With the Greens polling at a record high while the traditional parties seemingly run out of road, what are the factors underpinning the recent success of political ecology in Germany?