The age of the strongman
What defines a strongman, and what varieties of this curious species exist? Are there any strongwomen? And when did the age of strongmen really begin?
Anti-Establishment Parties
What a Le Pen presidency would mean for Europe and the world
How would a Le Pen presidency affect Europe and the world?
Why the EU’s rule of law mechanism won’t resolve its democratic crisis
It is crucial for the European Commission to resolutely defend the rule of law. If it settles for a rotten compromise with Warsaw, there will be a risk of legal chaos in the EU.
Autocratic power grab is no defence of sovereignty
The Polish prime minister has dismissed the dispute between Poland and the EU as a difference of opinion over competences. This is nonsense: the rule of law is at stake.
The road back to democracy in central Europe
The selection of a lead opposition candidate in Hungary is a promising sign for the strength of democracy in Europe. Democrats throughout the EU should lend their support to restoring the rule of law.
Out of Order: the Polish Constitutional Court’s challenge to the European Union
What steps can the EU take to defend its legal order and protect the authority of the CJEU?
Europe’s invisible divides: How covid-19 is polarising European politics
Europe’s covid-19 experience has been a tale of two pandemics – and the differences in each story could haunt the continent for many years to come
Nordic discomfort: How Denmark, Sweden, and Finland could harm the European project
Too many Europeans are turning a blind eye to the domestic politics of Nordic states. But theirs is a trajectory that could affect the future of the EU.
Under cover of Covid, Poland is stifling free media – and all Europe should be worried
A planned ‘coronavirus tax’ on revenues and attacks on foreign-owned media threaten to cut away democracy piece by piece
Calling it quits: How Europe should build on Fidesz’s exit from the EPP
The European People’s Party tolerated Fidesz for far too long. Its de facto expulsion should be a turning point in the relationship between the EU and Orbán’s Hungary
Publications
Europe’s invisible divides: How covid-19 is polarising European politics
Europe’s covid-19 experience has been a tale of two pandemics – and the differences in each story could haunt the continent for many years to come
Europe and its discontents: Poland’s collision course with the European Union
If Poland continues to drift away from the EU it will not only diminish its own influence, but also undermine the EU’s internal cohesion
Articles
Why the EU’s rule of law mechanism won’t resolve its democratic crisis
It is crucial for the European Commission to resolutely defend the rule of law. If it settles for a rotten compromise with Warsaw, there will be a risk of legal chaos in the EU.
Autocratic power grab is no defence of sovereignty
The Polish prime minister has dismissed the dispute between Poland and the EU as a difference of opinion over competences. This is nonsense: the rule of law is at stake.
The road back to democracy in central Europe
The selection of a lead opposition candidate in Hungary is a promising sign for the strength of democracy in Europe. Democrats throughout the EU should lend their support to restoring the rule of law.
Nordic discomfort: How Denmark, Sweden, and Finland could harm the European project
Too many Europeans are turning a blind eye to the domestic politics of Nordic states. But theirs is a trajectory that could affect the future of the EU.
Under cover of Covid, Poland is stifling free media – and all Europe should be worried
A planned ‘coronavirus tax’ on revenues and attacks on foreign-owned media threaten to cut away democracy piece by piece
Calling it quits: How Europe should build on Fidesz’s exit from the EPP
The European People’s Party tolerated Fidesz for far too long. Its de facto expulsion should be a turning point in the relationship between the EU and Orbán’s Hungary
The long year: Top foreign policy trends for 2021
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year to come
How the EU should turn the tables on Hungary and Poland
It was not only western European countries that insisted on the rule of law of mechanism – others like Slovakia and Romania did as well
Instrumental solidarity: Hungary’s management of the coronavirus crisis
The Orbán government’s demonstrations of European solidarity have been partly motivated by its nationalist goals and its concerns about migration
The dangers of crisis diplomacy: Italy, China, and Russia
Italy’s game of narratives around the covid-19 crisis poses a risk to the European project.
Specials
The 2019 European election: How anti-Europeans plan to wreck Europe and what can be done to stop it
Summary With anti-Europeans on their way to winning more than one-third of seats in the next European Parliament, the stakes in the May 2019 election…
Podcasts
The age of the strongman
What defines a strongman, and what varieties of this curious species exist? Are there any strongwomen? And when did the age of strongmen really begin?
What a Le Pen presidency would mean for Europe and the world
How would a Le Pen presidency affect Europe and the world?
Out of Order: the Polish Constitutional Court’s challenge to the European Union
What steps can the EU take to defend its legal order and protect the authority of the CJEU?
An interview with Anne Applebaum and José Ignacio Torreblanca
Head of ECFR’s Madrid Office, Jose Ignacio Torreblanca talks to the American historian, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Gulag, and expert on authoritarian populism about…
Events
2 Mar
Polarisation & Populism: What are the values of the new political tribes?
After the Brexit referendum and the US Presidential election, what do we know about changing attitudes towards values, institutions, immigration, and the environment? What are the new tribes of modern politics – and how can politicians reach them?
21 Nov
Trump presidente, ¿qué relación transatlántica?
ECFR celebró el jueves 17 de noviembre un debate sobre el futuro de las relaciones transatlánticas tras la victoria de Trump con Jeremy Shapiro, director de investigación de ECFR
15 Jul
Nativism in Europe: Survey Results from across Europe
Click on the button to load the content from www.mixcloud.com. Load content On 11 July, the Washington-based Pew Research Center released…
8 Mar
Black Coffee Morning: “Parteiendämmerung – Politischer Wandel in Spanien”
What does the lack of clear majorities mean for Spanish politics and the EU? How can developments in other EU member states help to explain potential repercussions of the current crisis on the Spanish party system? Black Coffee Morning with José Ignacio Torreblanca and Olaf Wientzek
28 Jan
Black Coffee Morning “Polen, Ungarn, Frankreich…wachsender Nationalismus in der EU”
Where is Poland heading? What EU-instruments could convince the Polish government? Very lively discussion with Piotr Buras and Joachim Bleicker.
15 Sep
Presentación del libro “Asaltar los cielos”, de José I. Torreblanca en Barcelona
No te pierdas la presentación en Barcelona del libro Asaltar los cielos (Ed. Debate) que nos abre la puerta a un análisis objetivo sobre el fenómeno político que ha revolucionado la política y la sociedad española.
12 May
José I. Torreblanca participa en un debate sobre el nuevo panorama político en España
Debate sobre la irrupción de Podemos en la política española en el Rectorado de la UNED
In the media
Piotr Buras discusses in this podcast the rule of law versus rule by law in the case of Poland
It is an important, almost historic judgement
If the PP forms a regional coalition with Vox, it is going to be very difficult for Casado not to include them in a national government
José Ignacio Torreblanca on Vox’s victory in Castile-León as conservative PP falls short of majority
There is no majority in parliament to support the bill, as the Solidarity Poland party opposes it and Law and Justice is divided
Piotr Buras publishes “Bielan’s idea, or the sucker’s charge” in the Polish news outlet ‘Wyborcza’