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The real trade deficit

The EU has the power but lacks the will to ensure workers' and human rights in international trade

By Clara Portela

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The far-right playbook

Fifty years on, the liberal 1960s student movement is the European far right’s best frenemy

By Paul Hockenos

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The liberal illusion of automatic progress

Proclaiming the inevitability of human progress too often turns a blind eye to criticism of capitalism and social inequality

By Nils Heisterhagen

Reuters

The North Korea pivot

With the US and South Korea pursuing diverging strategies, Europe could be faced with a catch-22 situation

By Mason Richey

Reuters

Ode to Joy

What the first female party leader Joy Pamela Rendi-Wagner intends to do with the Austrian Social Democrats

By Barbara Tóth

Reuters

Like a cat with nine lives

Nigerian history had its ups and downs. But celebrating 58 years of independence now, its democracy is here to stay

Reuters

'The middle classes hate the Workers’ Party.'

Sociologist Esther Solano on the first round of the Brazilian Presidential Elections this Sunday

By Esther Solano

Reuters

That's not the new Watergate

Despite a scandal-ridden US administration, it's an illusion to think Donald Trump will be gone any time soon

By Tobias Fella

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Tax paradise lost

It's time for Europe to show leadership when it comes to taxing multinational corporations in today’s digital world

By Tove Maria Ryding

Reuters

Balkan boycott

Why the inconclusive referendum in Macedonia poses a challenge to progressive politics in the Western Balkans

By Eva Ellereit