Politics and democracy

According to the latest European Environment Agency report, a significant proportion of the burden of disease in Europe continues to be attributed to environmental pollution resulting from human activity.

Since the recent nationwide vote on a set of constitutional amendments, Russia has had to live with the prospect of the 'eternal Putin'. We asked four young Russians what they think about the President’s 'reset', the Navalny case and the relationship with Europe.

As the anti-government protest gains momentum in Belarus, New Europeans asked opposition activists and experts working both inside Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and internationally what they most fear and what they believe will happen next?

The President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, gives her first State of the EU address on 16 September. With its recovery plan and the action of the ECB, the EU has reacted better to the corona-crisis than other blocks. It must now think of itself as a "geopolitical power" in order to face the challenges and speak directly to citizens to assert its uniqueness and defend its model, says the president of the Robert Schuman Foundation.

Threatened on several fronts, Europe needs common institutions that can assert a political power worthy of its economic weight, argues sociologist Alain Caillé, one of the authors of the Second Convivialist Manifesto.