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European integration

Beyond waving rainbow flags

Using the rainbow flag to highlight an east-west divide in Europe risks playing into the hands of authoritarian leaders

By Evelyne Paradis

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Democracy and society

Who will challenge Bulgaria’s strongman?

Last year's protests showed that Bulgarians want change. Yet the former prime minister, Boyko Borisov, could end up being in power once again

By Helene Kortländer

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Democracy and society

Vaccine nationalism is a recipe for disaster

While Europe celebrates the end of the pandemic, Covid-19 continues to ravage across Global South countries like Nepal. That puts everyone at risk

By Jonathan Menge, Chandra Dev Bhatta

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Future of social democracy

The soft underbelly of British politics

A by-election in northern England has just provided proof of concept for one of the most effective campaigns to degrade and destabilise UK democracy

By Paul Mason

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Economy and ecology

El Salvador: a safe haven for Bitcoin?

El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele's legalisation of Bitcoin as an official tender has raised many eyebrows. But what's behind the move?

By Sandra Weiss

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Interviews

'Nicaragua is moving towards autocracy'

President Daniel Ortega has launched a crackdown on the opposition. German Minister of State Niels Annen on Nicaragua's slide towards autocracy

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Work and digitalisation

How unemployment kills

The pandemic has once more shown that the connection between economic hardship and unemployment has a direct effect on people's health

By Kate Pickett

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From my bookshelf

The future of Europe is here

Even though there is much to criticise about the EU, Geert Mak’s 'The Dream of Europe', shows that we have come a long way

By Marius Müller-Hennig