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Beyond wellbeing and self-care

One in four people in the EU experiences mental health issues. Though a major milestone, the EU’s new approach to mental health still lacks efficacy

By Jackie Mellese

Reuters/ Benoit Tessier

Democracy and society

Insatiably seeking status

After years of growth, the art market appears to have reached a plateau, suggesting a decline in confidence among the world’s richest people

By R. James Breiding

Reuters

Democracy and society

How Brazil wants to end the war in Ukraine

In a world with growing ‘peace fatigue’, Lula’s peace initiative shows strong frustration with the West and lengthy confrontations full of suffering

By Monica Hirst, Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

Reuters/Bernadett Szabo

Democracy and society

Orbán’s anti-woke pretence

Hungary’s PM is portraying his country's anti-democratic shift as ‘truly conservative’. This strategy seems to resonate with Western intellectuals

By Eszter Kováts

Reuters/Telmo Pinto

Democracy and society

40 years of riots and protests

As long as the process of ghettoisation continues in France, the next police blunder and the subsequent riots are just around the corner

By François Dubet

BICC/Ruth Vollmer

Democracy and society

When returning home feels like hell

Migrants returning to their country of origin often face precarious situations. Yet, policymakers cling to ineffective but supposedly quick solutions

By Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek, Katja Mielke, Clara Schmitz-Pranghe, Ruth Vollmer

Reuters/ Alexander Ermochenko

Democracy and society

The biggest game changer in Russian politics

We don’t know what Prigozhin really intended with his mutiny. But he accidentally revived a preoccupation long thought dead in Moscow — real politics

By Alexey Yusupov

Reuters/ Yiannis Kourtoglou

Democracy and society

Do or die

Greece is heading to its second national election. But there is little to gain for left parties — the social democrats must rise to the occasion

By Nick Malkoutzis

Reuters/ Jonathan Ernst

Democracy and society

Undemocratic, but still successful with voters

How autocrats convince voters to sacrifice abstract interests like democracy

By Filip Milačić

Reuters/ Sandra Sebastian

Democracy and society

The return of Guatemala's pact of the corrupt

Eight years ago, there was talk of a 'Central American spring' in Guatemala. But the parallel structures that have once pained the country are back

By Knut Henkel