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Pexels / Ingo Joseph

Against the polarisation of society

Why progressive parties sometimes need to be conservative to stop the populist revolts

Reuters

Back to the roots

Why social democracy needs to represent ordinary people instead of middle-class cosmopolitans

By Ernst Hillebrand

Reuters

‘It’s the democracy, stupid’

Certain Remainers’ claims that the Brexit referendum result should be discounted display a lack of democratic faith

By Frances Foley

Reuters

The nationalist cosmopolitan

...sounds like an oxymoron? Many voters don’t see it that way – and so don’t feel included in the current political debate

By Jan Eichhorn

Reuters

Towns with hope

The Brexit referendum has exposed the deep divide between towns and cities. It's time to reunite the ‘two Englands’

By Lisa Nandy MP

Reuters

Social Europe is a myth

Why a more social EU sometimes needs protection against too much Europe

By Martin Höpner

Pexels / Jimmy Chan

In the public interest

How a lobbying fee could end the excessive influence enjoyed by wealthy interest groups

By Suleika Reiners

Wikimedia / Stiftung Haus der Geschichte

The far-right playbook

Fifty years on, the liberal 1960s student movement is the European far right’s best frenemy

By Paul Hockenos

Reuters

Ode to Joy

What the first female party leader Joy Pamela Rendi-Wagner intends to do with the Austrian Social Democrats

By Barbara Tóth

Reuters

Tax paradise lost

It's time for Europe to show leadership when it comes to taxing multinational corporations in today’s digital world

By Tove Maria Ryding