Debates

The results of the recent elections in Spain had been awaited with a great excitement. Particularly, because the country was portrayed as immensely divided, with many tensions, regarding separatists as well as an anti-democratic movement. The ...

Paul Mason argues that the Left needs to draw inspiration from the 1930s 'popular front' idea and increase their prospects of gaining power by forming red-red-green alliances.   To fight the resurgent right effectively, we need ...

Anne Muxel discusses how the Left could win back the young vote in the campaign for the European elections but warns that gaining Millennials' political trust might be difficult. Progressive Post: We tend to assume that ...

New EU rules for organic production and labelling of organic products were adopted in May 2018, after four years of negotiations. The objective is to encourage the development of organic farming by harmonising European practices. Florent ...

Only 3 days after winning the general elections, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) celebrated its 140 years anniversary on 2nd May. It was the first electoral victory of PSOE in 11 years. Both events coincided ...

Measures in favour of more gender equality, adopted during the last ten months, have contributed to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez' electoral success. But the issue is not off the table in Spain for years to come. ...

They did it in Spain, too. VOX, the far-right party, enters the Spanish parliament after the recent national elections. Although their vote share (10%) is not that big, compared to their brother parties in Europe (Poland ...

The resounding victory of the Slovak environmental activist and public interest lawyer Zuzana Čaputova in the Slovak presidential elections shows that it is possible to beat the rising tide of xenophobic policies in post-soviet countries. It ...

Bringing all forces of society together - individuals as well as groups - is the best way to deal with those who want to create a battleground between economic and financial interests or between ideologies of ...

Whether a government or private enterprise should directly own and control an activity is at the heart of politics – that's why the question 'who owns Europe' is an incredibly important one. But a lack of ...

Recent elections and the rise of populism show that the centre-left is losing ground. A ‘politics of ownership’, which gives power to citizens by involving them in the economy and in the affairs of the state, ...

Armenia has been in Europe's blind spot for many years. Last year's "Velvet Revolution" however presents an exciting new opportunity to bring the country into Europe's focus again. A previous tabu topics like women’s representation and ...