The victory of the right-wing candidate George Simion in the first round of Romania’s rerun presidential election has been celebrated by some on the right as a populist victory. By this account, the EU- and NATO-aligned forces that overturned the country’s previous election in November have failed to turn back the growing backlash against the establishment. But a deeper analysis suggests a more complex and troubling picture.
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Wolfgang Streeck: The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and Supranational Centralization
In 1945 Karl Polanyi outlined a vision of a peacetime global state system with a political economy in which small countries could be both sovereign and democratic. The present essay reviews developments between then and […]
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The Electronic Intifada: War criminal Gadi Eisenkot nabs $1 million in EU funding
The European Union has approved a grant worth almost $1 million to a firm headed by Gadi Eisenkot, one of the Israeli politicians who has overseen the Gaza genocide. Storage Drop, as Eisenkot’s firm is […]
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Iñigo Urkullu: Only political dialogue can bring stability to Catalonia – and the EU must help
Iñigo Urkullu is president of the Basque government: “I cannot understand or share Madrid’s approach to either Basque autonomy or the Catalan crisis”, nor apparently the EU’s role in the Catalan crisis. Read here
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