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Foreign and security policy

More than a few acres of snow

Trump’s bid for Greenland breaks the post-war consensus. If Europe wants to stand up to the US president, it must finally learn the language of power

By Marcus Schneider

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Democracy and society

Silent fault lines

Iran’s protests show a regime trapped between anger at home and paralysis at the top

By David Ramin Jalilvand

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Democracy and society

Kyiv’s great re-shuffle

Ukraine’s top power shift signals deep securitisation and a careful balancing of rivals as the war enters a volatile phase

By Balázs Jarábik

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Foreign and security policy

The show must go on

The absence of the president and the first lady shows that Venezuela is not a one-man dictatorship and never has been

By Anja Dargatz

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Democracy and society

Fewer walls, more bridges

Calls for firewalls against the far right overlook a key truth: democracy is defended through debate, not isolation

By Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf

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Future of social democracy

Universalism is a dream

But not an impossible one

By Kaushik Basu

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Democracy and society

The year that could be

Hope no longer dazzles. Its power lies in persistence, in acting as if change is possible

By Lea Ypi

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Economy and ecology

A moonshot in retreat

Once heralded as Europe’s man on the moon moment, the Green Deal now wavers under political compromise and legal uncertainty

By Daniel Harper