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Europe’s far-right dominoes knock down democracy
Democracy rarely dies suddenly.
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Brussels sprouting same old stale economic plans
It was an ambitious plan to make the European Union the world’s most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy within a decade.
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Dictators conspire: Oil, assassins, exploitation
Last week’s prisoner exchange between Russia, Belarus and several Western nations offered a stark glimpse into the workings of modern autocracies.
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Europe is now on its own
After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, all eyes were on the Republican National Convention.
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Macron’s electoral gamble to see off the far-right
“How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?”, asked Charles de Gaulle in 1962.
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A far-right falling out in Europe
As the European Parliament elections loom next month, a political earthquake is reshaping the landscape of the continent’s far-right.
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Europe will not be able to fight the return of conscription
More than two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered the continent’s illusion of perpetual peace, Europe finds itself confronting a once-unthinkable question: is it time to bring back the draft?
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Swiss climate ruling full of holes
Once upon a time, it was the role of parliaments to make laws, governments to execute them, and the role of courts to uphold them.
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Europe’s impossible nuclear option
For Europe’s security, there are no silver bullets – and certainly no alternative nuclear option.
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Europe’s precarious security could invite Putin to expand war
Happy new years do not start like this.