Populism and far-right expert and lecturer Cas Mudde talks about The Far Right Today, his latest book. He explains how a narrative that focuses on authoritarianism and nativism has become commonplace, with the complicity of moderate parties and mainstream media.
Despite the global-warming emergency there is still a strong appetite for cheap hydrocarbons and energy independence – as well as revenue in times of crisis. Oil and natural-gas mining has been going on for more than a century in Albania. Today, multinational oil companies are looking for new reserves in neighbouring Greece region of Epirus, as photojournalist Penelope Thomaidi’s work shows.
There is growing evidence of forced labour, torture, forced sterilisation and arbitrary detention against ethnic Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang region. While the international community and the EU have barely raised their voice, some international companies profit from the forced labour in detention camps while China is working on silencing reports of this on-going cultural genocide, even in European countries.
European democracy needs independent media. Voxeurop needs you. Join our community!
