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'There's little trust in citizens in European democracy'

Belgian intellectual David van Reybrouck on how a tiny community in Eastern Belgium democratises democracy with lottery

Reuters

Playing by your own rules

Why Europe should have long stopped selling arms to the Near and Middle East

By Herbert Wulf

Reuters

Realistic and fair immigration

The leader of the Danish Social Democrats on an immigration policy to unite Denmark

By Mette Frederiksen

ze2019.com

A new style of politics

How social media creates politicians' images and influences elections: the case of Volodymyr Zelenskiy

By Georgii Pocheptsov

Pexels

Output gap nonsense

How misleading statistics have led to terrible economic policy-making in the EU since 2008

Reuters

'The wall has not completely disappeared'

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

Reuters

How the market is betraying advanced economies

Without reinventing the role of governments in shaping the economy, it's difficult to imagine a prosperous future

Reuters

Why do Central European nationalists love Israel?

Populist leaders in Central Europe view Israel as the model of how a small state could be sovereign and heroic

By Ivan Krastev

Reuters

Enter: Volodymyr Zelenskiy

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

Reuters

The French experiment

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