A Hunger Strike at the Heart of Europe
This summer some 450 undocumented workers and migrants in Brussels refused food during two months. They were protesting Belgian immigration rules that human rights officials and campaigners like Lilan...
1 Sep 202149min
Eurocrats Who Look Like Europe
There is a double standard at the heart of the European Union’s powerful executive body, the European Commission. Women — mostly white women — benefit from affirmative action when applying for jobs. B...
30 Juni 202139min
First Aid for Polish Democracy
Parallels with the Soviet era are increasingly evident in Poland where the ruling coalition hounds judges and captures courts. Adam Bodnar, the country's human rights commissioner, lambasts European C...
14 Maj 202143min
Why She Won't Go
Ursula von der Leyen appears secure in her job as president of the European Commission. That's despite a troubled vaccine rollout in which delayed deliveries can cost lives and livelihoods. But preser...
7 Apr 202138min
Keeping the Red Flag Flying
The hard left is often associated with the colours red for revolution and black for anarcho-syndicalism. But the movement is more and more green these days too. The trend is exemplified in many ways b...
18 Mars 202135min
Taking Brexit Personally
James Crisp has Boris Johnson's old job in Brussels covering EU affairs for The Daily Telegraph. James often writes with that jaundiced eye on the European project you'd expect from a correspondent on...
16 Feb 202131min
When Conservatives Endanger Democracy
Political scientist Daniel Ziblatt is best known for co-authoring the 2018 bestseller How Democracies Die. The book is an indictment of US Republicans and their failure to resist Donald Trump. Daniel'...
2 Feb 202139min
Citizen Deliberation in Light of an Insurrection
Can the European Union do more to hold back the kinds of malign forces that overran the US Capitol claiming to defend democracy? It's not an idle question. Democratic shortcomings in the European Unio...
11 Jan 202130min
