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'Social democratic parties will only survive if they build bridges'

Former MP Frank Vandenbroucke on what the polarising Belgian elections mean for the country – and social democracy

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'The images are already iconic'

Barbara Tóth on what Austria's Ibizagate scandal means for the country – and European right-wing populism

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'Deliberative democracy makes citizens happy'

David van Reybrouck on how a small community in Eastern Belgium puts randomly selected citizens at the heart of politics

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Flying high, falling low

Despite the polls predicting a narrow win, Australia's Labor Party lost the general election – because it didn't convince working class voters, says Adrian Pabst

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'Civil war is possible'

Left-wing intellectual Edgardo Lander on the political crisis in Venezuela, the role of the US and the left's failure to learn

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'The wall has not completely disappeared'

15 years after the EU’s enlargement towards Eastern Europe, then-Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Špidla takes stock

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Enter: Volodymyr Zelenskiy

What we know about the Ukrainian President-elect's political platform when it comes to corruption – and Russia

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The French experiment

France’s democracy is in crisis. There’s a growing desire for radical alternatives in the form of direct citizen participation

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The Green wave

Why Green parties' support is surging across many countries – and what this has to do with right-wing populists

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Sudan's military coup

Philipp Jahn in Khartoum on why Omar al-Bashir’s fall from power doesn’t mean the end of the regime in Sudan