Europe has entered its own era of McCarthyism – against Islam
As guilty until proven innocent increasingly becomes authorities’ approach to Muslims, basic rights such as freedom of religion are at great risk
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?: OpinionHow battling France’s COVID pass led the Left to embolden the far Right
Instead of focusing on changes that would ease pandemic suffering, left-wing groups have joined hysterical protests...
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Published in:HomeSplinters: October 2021 – sallies into the here & now
This month: The rationality paradox... Real Problems, False Solutions I... Can an old Viking tradition be...
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?: OpinionIslamophobic raids hid Austrian government failure to prevent a terror attack
While the Austrian government busied itself with its Islamophobic agenda, its intelligence services missed vital...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChoosing between access and sex workers’ rights in Portugal
Anti-trafficking NGOs in Portugal have entered into a neoliberal bargain where political neutrality on sex workers’...
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Published in:50.50: NewsHow the far Right tried to exploit Spain’s anti-austerity 15-M protests
WikiLeaks files also show ultra-conservative campaigners copying tactics from Greenpeace and Oxfam, and falsely...
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?: OpinionBlowing a raspberry at France’s democracy
Abstention is the cancer currently eating into French democracy and society. President Emmanuel Macron is keen to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionÉric Zemmour is no fascist – he’s the creature of the French establishment
Unlike Marine Le Pen, far-Right presidential candidate Zemmour has no link to France’s fascist tradition. His...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionScrutiny and citizens’ assemblies: a missing piece of the democratic puzzle?
The judgements of citizens’ assemblies could have profound effects on our politics. But will our politics allow it?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: FeatureMax Weber on authoritarianism: real problems, false solutions
What can the Weimar period tell us about the present?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rationality paradox
Attributing credulity to sloppy thinking or ignorance is tempting, but doesn't advance our understanding of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe tale of Maglaj: a story of war and peace
How a documentary film bringing together war veterans from opposing sides of the Bosnian War can help heal national trauma
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionOn immigration, Britain’s Tories sound a lot like the Italian far Right
In both countries, popular language conceals seemingly racist ideologies while threat is manufactured for public consumption
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionDominic Raab didn’t anticipate Kabul falling. He should have bought some binoculars
The Afghanistan issue was on Dominic Raab’s desk for years. If he’d paid it more attention, he might have realised...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhen saying ‘No’ isn’t enough: a Splinter meditation
'What I want to examine is why... progressives can’t use the same tactic as their rightwing counterparts of trashing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spectacle of terror: the invisible hand
'The results of the actions of the EU Troika are not unlike a terror attack'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionNorway's Sami people fight for their land as reconciliation commission delves into their past
'Today we must apologize for the injustice the Norwegian state has previously inflicted on the Sami people through a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?When machines suck humanity out of the economy
'Where we stayed for part of this summer, there was a book in praise of Yquem, about the most expensive wine money can buy'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Burning down the house
'The pain of those who have lost or will lose access to their land and roots... is very difficult to picture. Near...
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Published in: Home: OpinionReflecting on 1,000 columns over 20 years: the predictions that came true
On an openDemocracy milestone for Paul Rogers, he gives an insight into the late 20th-century landscape that shaped...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionAngela Merkel’s departure is an opportunity to fix the EU
As the four-term chancellor leaves the European stage, strict fiscal rules can finally be abandoned in favour of...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisNeoliberalism is dying – now we must replace it
From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are abandoning free-market policies. But what does...
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Published in: HomeSplinters: September 2021 – sallies into the here & now
This month: Burning down the house... When machines suck humanity out of the economy... Norway's Sami people fight...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionAt the next election, Italians have two options: Right or further Right?
The quick ascent of the Brothers of Italy party has surprised analysts and raised questions about fascism
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisWhy at-risk Afghans have a right of admission to EU member states
The protection of Afghans should not be limited to those directly employed by European governments
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhen saying No isn’t enough: an aggrandizing identification
A monocultural National Us possesses superior power, force or force of number, and a sense of impunity. This is an...
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Published in: Home: NewsPolish media and opposition fight to save press freedom from state control
Government’s controversial bill ‘would wipe out one of last institutions to hold authorities accountable’ and could...