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Ep.105: Abortion Politics, EU Elections, Austria, Papayas, Slovenia
Abortion is a deal breaker for some voters. That's the case in the US where Joe Biden is making Donald Trump pay a political price for his role in overturning Roe vs. Wade. That's also been the case in Poland where a wellspring of pro-choic
Ep.104: Free speech, National Conservatives, Cordon sanitaire, CPAC
What's the best approach to fighting the hard right? Suppressing toxic views? Or contesting them publicly? The answer lies in the middle of course — an open society must retain the means to reject intolerance and hate. But what's clear from
Ep.103: Politics and Eurovision, Sweden v France, Ukraine v Russia, Israel
Some people love Eurovision. Others don't get it. But beyond the camp and kitsch of the annual song contest (https://eurovision.tv/) there's much to observe about the politics of Europe and the wider region. In this episode, author and broa
Ep.102: European Parliament and Race, Aya Nakamura, Diversity and Policing
Opposition to French-Malian singer Aya Nakamura performing at the Paris Olympics is whipped up by the "fachosphère" in France. The former head of the EU Border and Coast Guard joins the far-right and accuses former colleagues of a "project"
Ep.101: Greenland Trump, WW3 Denmark, Rwanda Model, War Council
Donald Trump wanted to buy it; Mette Frederiksen said it wasn't for sale. Greenland and its ownership is for Greenlanders to decide, the Danish prime minister told President Trump five years ago. In this episode Karin Axelsson (https://twit
Ep.100: Frontex in Greece, Abortion in France
Frontex, the EU border and coast guard, is the bloc's best funded agency costing upwards of a billion euros a year. There are plans for a standing corps of 10,000 uniformed personnel this decade. But something is badly amiss. Migrants keep
Ep.99: Conflict Data, Navalny, Militias, Gaza, German Farmers
The world is growing more violent. Worst affected countries include Myanmar, Syria and Mexico as well as those experiencing more obvious crises like Gaza and Ukraine. That's according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (htt
Ep.98: Orbán rattled, Fortifying Germany against the AfD, Farmer rampage
Markus Becker (https://www.spiegel.de/impressum/autor-7623a61e-0001-0003-0000-000000000935) of Der Spiegel describes a developing situation in Germany where the popularity of the far-right AfD party has surged over the past year. Revelation
Ep.97: Terry Reintke, Looking to Ban ID, Article 2, AfD, Le Pen
Terry Reintke (https://twitter.com/TerryReintke) unhesitatingly describes some EU lawmakers with anti-European and far-right views as fascists. Her directness stands in sharp contrast to bland circumlocutions more common to Brussels. Now Te
Ep.96: NATO, Post-Trump Stress Disorder, Breton, Rutte vs Kallas
The prospect of a wider conflict with Russia under a scenario where Donald Trump is back in the White House has spooked Europe. Thierry Breton, a European commissioner, is among those sounding the alarm. This month Breton made headlines by
Ep.95: Draghi, Michel, Acca Laurentia, Meloni and Putin
Mario Draghi is the obvious candidate to be the next president of the European Council. The job involves leading the meetings of EU heads of state and government. And it's wide open since incumbent Charles Michel announced he's quitting. Bu
Sleepwalking Into 2024
Jacques Delors passed away this week. He was the longest serving president of the European Commission. But what made Delors such a towering figure was his headlong rush to unify the continent. Monetary union. Free movement. The Single Marke
Big Meat’s Big Win in Europe
Big Meat had a good year in Europe. Plans to set emission limits for large-scale cattle farms were scrapped. Rules requiring landowners to restore wetlands were mostly gutted. And a keenly anticipated reform of the animal welfare rules was
Rethinking the Race for Metals and Minerals
EU industrial policy for silicon chips to space technologies to electric vehicles too often seems to rely on Europeans prevailing in a global race to mine. The phrase "drill, baby, drill" applies as much to metals and minerals as oil and ga
How to Take On Elon Musk
The problem of X as a source of hate and a threat to democracy is back at the top of the policy agenda. Elon Musk's social media platform circulated a large amount of false information as well as images of extreme violence during the recent
Eurowhiteness and a Far-Right EU
We need to talk about a Far Right EU. Nativists and ultraconservatives are being actively courted by the European mainstream including at the level of the EU. There's the advent of prime minister Giorgia Meloni, with her party's roots in It
How Eurowhiteness Shapes the EU
Europeans are comfortable talking about whiteness in the American context. But when it comes to their own continent, not so much. That serves to shut down an important conversation about police brutality, decolonisation and migration. The r
When Conservatives Endanger Democracy — Revisited
News from Spain where a far-right political party called Vox lost seats in the recent general election. Vox are culture warriors in the mould of the US MAGA movement: anti-migrant, anti-LGBT+, anti-Islam, anti-feminist and with a predilecti
Polish State Media Gone Rogue
Polish state media still is treated as a legitimate public service by European authorities. Yet many Poles refer to it as a factory of hate. They say Polish state TV and radio first and foremost serve to advance the agenda of the ruling Law
The Man Bringing Beyond Growth to Brussels
Philippe Lamberts is advancing one of the most progressive agendas ever to reach the upper echelons of the EU power structure. This month the co-head of the Greens (https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/person/lamberts-philippe) at the European Parl
The Assault on NGOs
Conveniently at the heart of the EU Qatargate corruption scandal is a rogue NGO. Conveniently, that is, for EU officials and lawmakers who dislike non-governmental organisations. NGOs frequently end up in an awkward relationship with states
Corruption in the Family
Families can go wrong. And unless you've been under a rock these last weeks, you'll know that a number of members of the Socialist family at the European Parliament went very wrong. They allegedly took sack loads of Qatari cash on top of th
Mars Returns
Putin's barbarism is somehow felt by us all even though it can be hard to get to grips with the magnitude of what's at stake. One reason may be what writer and academic Tom Nichols calls normalcy bias (https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletter
Ethics After Qatargate
The European Parliament is reeling from corruption allegations involving the Gulf state of Qatar. Members' offices have been sealed. Raids have been carried out by Italian and Belgian authorities. And large sums of cash seized including sac
Bad Karma
The European Union wants India as a strategic ally. And India loves the positive attention it's getting from Europe. Both sides are trying to speed up a long stalled-trade agreement amid steadily tightening relations. But that only serves t
The Decolonisers
Decolonisation is a new way of confronting racism. It means rooting out colonial-era attitudes of white superiority that linger in our societies and institutions. The push for decolonisation in the US and parts of Europe took wings with the
How Europe Helped Normalise Giorgia Meloni
Georgia Meloni was 19 and speaking to French TV when she praised Italian dictator and Hitler ally Mussolini. Back then the likely next prime minister of Italy was dressed all in black and flanked by burly men. Twenty-six years later things
Model Minority Myths
There are many things to love about France. But a stated policy of colour blindness is not one of them. Among those leading the charge against a French conception of universalism that makes discussing race so awkward is Grace Ly (https://tw
Bianca's Story Revisited
Europeans howl about U.S. backsliding on abortion rights but they don't exactly have their own house in order. Take the case of Bianca. She's a Romanian. She was studying medicine in Germany. And she discovered she was pregnant in Korea. Bi
The Curious Case of the Racial Muslim
Legal scholar Sahar Aziz (https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw) says people who identify as Muslim are often perceived in racial terms, like black and brown people, in white-dominated societies. That makes Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic
