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European integration

Can the Dutch hawk turn into a dove?

The new government has shed its ‘frugal’ attitude to fiscal policy. That's less about solidarity with southern Europe than realignment with Germany

By Rem Korteweg

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Foreign and security policy

Turkey's shuttle diplomacy in the Black Sea region

Turkey wants to act as a mediator in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. That's consistent with the inconsistency of Russian-Turkish relations

By Yevgeniya Gaber

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Work and digitalisation

A knife-edge vote against precariousness

With a wafer-thin majority, Spain’s progressive government has passed the most comprehensive reform of labour law in the history of Spanish democracy

By Bettina Luise Rürup

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Democracy and society

Boris Johnson: a political career in freefall

The Conservative Party used to be famed for its pragmatic retention of power. It’s lost that muscle memory

By Paul Mason

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Future of social democracy

Will the Portuguese Social Democrats remain in power?

Without a clear majority on Sunday's snap elections, the Socialist Democrats will have to prepare for long negotiations to form a government

By Fabian Schmiedel

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Democracy and society

Austria's vaccine mandate is no example to follow

Inconsistent, toothless, politically toxic. Why Austria's new mandatory vaccination law is not a model for other European countries to follow

By Barbara Tóth

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Work and digitalisation

Europe needs a public service internet

Europe shouldn't try to imitate Silicon Valley. Instead, it must use its strengths to counter the threat Big Tech poses to democracy: public service

By Christian Fuchs

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Foreign and security policy

How France greenwashes nuclear weapons

France plans to modernise its nuclear power – allegedly to insure cheaper and greener electricity. Yet behind it nestles a nuclear weapons agenda

By Angelika Claußen

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Interviews

‘A policy of détente for this day and age’

In the long term, Europe needs a security architecture that goes beyond two opposing blocs, argues German social-democratic MP Rolf Mützenich

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Democracy and society

BoJo has served his purpose

Boris Johnson's days in office may be numbered. But the Tories don't need him to continue advancing anti-social, anti-democratic policies

By Michèle Auga