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For Greece’s centre-left, Pasok redux won’t do

Newly elected Fofi Gennimata faces the monumental task of forming a movement to give Greece’s social democratic forces a common purpose

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Where now for Germany?

With government negotiations collapsing, Germany and Angela Merkel are suddenly no longer looking so stable

By Klaus Larres

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Take back the palace

In wake of the Paradise Papers, it’s time tax-paying citizens recognised their power to create change

By Ann Pettifor

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Investment on return

Training programmes could encourage failed asylum seekers to return home

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The case against free-market capitalism

Neoliberalism has been tried and found wanting. Do modern governments have the tools or know-how to correct it?

By Ngaire Woods

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Sleeping in separate beds

Divorce from Spain would be disastrous for Catalonia. But Barcelona needs a greater degree of independence

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Europe must find its own approach to Iran

Why we cannot rely on American diplomacy in the row over the nuclear deal.

By Rolf Mützenich

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I’m Northern Irish, European, and I want to keep it that way

Journalist Andrew Lowry explains why Brexit is particularly hard to stomach for young people in the disputed region

By Andrew Lowry

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Babiš it’s you: where now for the Czech Republic?

Anne Seyfferth reports on the fall of the social democrats in the Czech Republic – and the man of the moment, anti-establishment billionaire Andrej Babiš

By Anne Seyfferth

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Closing the education gender gap

130 million girls currently do not attend school, depriving them of a decent future, and businesses of skilled workers

By Julia Gillard