Politics

The Greens’ failure to break through has roots in the country’s democratic history and political culture.

To reconcile the physical reality of climate change with the attitudes of German society, pragmatism is key.

Transnational parties promised to shake up EU politics before the European elections in 2019. These experiments appear to have run out of road.

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.