No more red lines left to cross: The Hungarian government’s emergency measures
The Hungarian government now has a great deal of flexibility to rule as it sees fit, provided that it portrays its actions as being in the interests of crisis management
Anti-Establishment Parties
Whatever it takes: Italy and the Covid-19 crisis
Italy’s response to the virus is starting to reshape its politics.
Bringing the radical right in: Lessons learned from Spain
Vox’s success in Spain illuminates some of populism’s successful escalation strategies, as well as the mistakes of mainstream parties
Russiagate and Italy’s governing coalition
A domestic political scandal threatens to destabilise the League-Five Star coalition
The EU must defend its rule-of-law revolution
A recent EU court ruling has sent a chill down the spines of populist governments determined to undermine judicial independence. The new Commission must defend this crucial victory
Europe’s emigration paradox
Emigration is as much a worry for some European citizens as immigration, if not more so. What should the EU and member states do about this?
Is winter coming to the EU?
Many observers expect a grand showdown between the forces of “open” and “closed” societies in next month’s European Parliament elections, with the very future of the European Union at stake. They are right to be worried, but wrong about the reason
Will the yellow vests movement spread across Europe?
The yellow vests could have more influence than expected on the debates leading up to the European Parliament election
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…
How Europe’s populists can win by losing
The European Parliament elections this May have been described as a make-or-break moment for the future of the European project – and for good reason. With plans to form a populist united front, Eurosceptic parties need only capture one-third of parliamentary seats to bring EU governance to a crawl