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How racism and immigration gave us Trump, Brexit, and a whole new kind of politics Donald Trump is not an accident. It’s tempting to see Trump’s rise as something sui generis: something so bizarre, so linked to his own celebrity, that it could never...

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, Zagreb Less than a year after the regular parliamentary elections, a campaign is ongoing in Croatia for snap elections, scheduled for September 11th. The reason for a re-vote is that the fragile coalition government, led by...

A Moment Series Democracy in Retreat Are Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his populist-right party marching the country in the wrong direction? by Yigal Schleifer It’s a few days before the May 25 European Parliament elections, and the streets of Budapest...

Piketty and Habermas argue that the EU and the eurozone can be democratized by strengthening electoral-representative institutions. Such powers would only make popular control over EU political decisions even weaker than it already is, argue Lorenzo...

Fate of nation rests on politician who won by promising the impossible By Jonathan Eyal, Europe Correspondent In London, The Straits Times, 2 Feb 2015 HE IS young, gifted and Greek. At the tender age of 16, Alexis Tsipras was already leading tens of...