Politics

On 23 July, a crucial election could determine Spain’s future course, but the divisive electoral campaign shows that the country has already changed.

Following Zagreb’s example, grassroots-based municipalist movements can lead a new progressive wave in the Balkans.

Despite their activist and local politics background, France’s Greens face a chronic lack of leadership experience.

Only pluralistic, bottom-up approaches to leadership can ensure cohesion to our fragmented societies.

Faced with the inevitable failures of populism and technocracy, politics must rediscover its practical, communal and collective dimension. With this conversation, Edouard Gaudot and Natalie Bennett introduce a new series they co-curated on leadership in crisis, and explore the alternatives that Green thinking can offer.

The culture wars around climate policy seem set to become the new normal, as the heating law debate in Germany exemplified.

Throughout Europe, former centre-right parties have thrown the doors of government wide open to the far right.

Edouard Gaudot looks back on the Gilets jaunes to ask how ecology can find its form in popular movements.

From national leaders calling for a pause to the European Green Deal to the online Right’s re-invention of the “15-minute city” as an authoritarian project for social control, the signs of an anti-green backlash are growing.

Compared to the heady days of the Green Wave, it is clear that green politics in Europe has entered a new phase.

The Greens have consolidated their position in England, but they need to strike a difficult balance between competing demands.