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Back to normal

After ten years of crises, the result of the Greek elections sends a clear signal: the country wants to enter calmer waters

Reuters

Migrants, militias and the Mediterranean Sea

Criminalising NGOs and relying on Libyan militias cannot make up for a European solution in the Central Mediterranean

The EU’s ongoing East-West divide

How the West’s economic exploitation and moral arrogance fuel right-wing populism in East-Central Europe

By Eszter Kováts and Katerina Smejkalova

Pexels

Time for postcapitalism

Neither falling poverty nor rising wellbeing, but time itself will be the ultimate measure of the transition beyond capitalism

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Letting go in order to win

Paradoxically, a party split might be the only thing keeping the Austrian Social Democrats from becoming irrelevant

By Katharina Mittelstaedt

Pexels

Industrial policy is back

The state needs to make strategic investments to increase demand for socially and ecologically beneficial goods

By Gustav A. Horn

Pexels

The therapeutic society

Collective problems cannot be solved by the self-optimisation of individuals. It’s time for collective action

Reuters

The gap between expectation and reality

The EU cannot close its eyes to the deaths in the Mediterranean. It has to find a humane response to migration patterns

By Lasse Juhl Morthorst

Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archive

This time is different

Facism, nationalism, class struggle: simplistic comparisons of today’s politics with the early 20th century are mistaken

By Branko Milanović

Reuters

On the edge

Climate protection is the new conflict line in European societies. Traditional parties have to offer a vision for the future

By Stella Schaller and Alexander Carius