Europeans favour intra-EU mobility
Europeans are becoming more enthusiastic about migration within Europe, but they remain generally hostile to immigration from outside Europe.
Year: 2018
Will Vienna build bridges or take sides?
Austria may come to play an ominous role in the deepening conflict between East and West, writes Carl Henrik Fredriksson. The future of the EU will be decided in Central Europe.
Insular loneliness
There must be public debate on the renewal of the central bank
In this appeal some prominent academics, including Ulrike Guérot and Thomas Piketty, demand that the nominations for the Frankfurt institution be conducted publicly, rather than behind closed doors, as has been the norm so far.
From the EU to the United Europe, a common cause for citizens and governments
A new open and democratic Europe can come out from dynamic citizens and grassroots movements like Pulse of Europe, says one of its members, the author of "The European Spring" François Dupont.
Unstable balance
Liberal parties are drifting ever more to the right
In Austria, the Freedom Party has turned from the most pro-European movement to the most europhobe and anti-immigration. In Germany the Liberal democrat party has put its hostility to migrants and refugees on top of its agenda. The same goes for Switzeland's once-centrist DUC. What has happened to the Liberal ideology in German-speaking Europe?
Fearless reporter
Are social democrats still alive?
All across Europe, social democratic parties are struggling to stay relevant. One of the oldest political ideologies is in crisis. An overview of the current situation.
Is Morawiecki the Polish Macron?
Young, former banker, for a long time unaffiliated, and thought to have a good relationship with Brussels… the list of deceptive similarities between the new Polish prime minister and the president of France is long. Meanwhile, Mateusz Morawiecki shows no signs of putting an end to the war of words between Brussels and Warsaw, as the Commissions triggered a sanction procedure against Poland.
‘Domestic politicians mishandled right-wing populism from the start’
For the German and pro-European philosopher European democratic parties should stop pussyfooting around with right-wing populists and stand instead for the values they should be representing.