What has killed more people in France since 2000? Islamic terrorism or ‘la chasse’?
Playing to the gallery of anti-Muslim prejudice is something that successive French presidents have engaged in since the former Front National movement began its rise in the 1980s
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Published in:Home: FeatureOne year after the Hanau massacre, victims’ families fight for justiceAlthough it was eclipsed by the pandemic, last February’s mass shooting revealed Germany’s failure to confront the...
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Published in:Can Europe Make It?A shrinking space: media capture in Orbán’s HungaryThe demise of a once thriving independent broadcaster is yet another signpost in Hungary's deteriorating democracy...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionHow Spanish democracy is under fascist threatDialogue will be key to solving the serious political problems that have been generated, to the sole benefit of the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe Sarkozy ruling is just the latest in France’s long history of corruptionThe corruption is more than enough to explain the crisis of confidence in French established politics
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMost Northern Irish voters want DUP’s dark money revealed, research suggestsNorthern Ireland Electoral Commission calls for powers to publish political donations retrospectively, including...
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Published in: HomeSplinters: March 2021 – short essays on the here & nowThis month: Hall of mirrors... 'Tseuf tseuf' waiting to go: the English legislator and national disaster... Black,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisHow the European Union has always preferred power grabs to democracyA series of ‘coups’ across decades allowed European institutions to take more and more power, always undermining the...
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Published in: HomeSpeaking for ourselves'You’re on mute! ' was actually a perturbing reminder of the ways in which we have all been silenced
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Published in: 50.50: NewsopenDemocracy’s feminist investigations team shortlisted for European awardOur Tracking the Backlash team was chosen for revealing the global spread of anti-abortion misinformation that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reinhard's Tale: in search of an absent tense'We might hope that some absences audible to us now (that of heavy traffic) anticipate future human life.'
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Published in: HomeIt's already the end of February'Reject all subjective particulars in the name of the objective universal, or else!' The ultimatum of modernity.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘One of the problems in France is distrust’, Macron warns. Why might that be?When it comes to selling things that kill, France is the rising star, when it comes to those that save lives, such...
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Published in: Home: OpinionKamala Harris, Angela Davis, and the US's failed revolutionIf the pandemic could be seen as our Reichstag Fire moment, then the attacks on the Capitol on 6 January 2021 might...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National risk assessments: a political vaccine against the next disaster?How do we prevent and prepare for future disasters, natural or man-made? Introducing National Risk Assessments as a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewHow we got here: the story of the Palermo protocol on trafficking'Human trafficking' didn't have to mean what it now does. This is the story of how it got its definition, as told by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What is offensive is these governments’ housing arrangements for asylum seekersBrexit or not, Britain has a lot in common with the continent in terms of hostility to ‘outsiders’
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?John Le Carré and Olof Palme: kindred spiritsThe kinship between Olof Palme and David Cornwell is evident in their shared, lifelong passion for peace and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Kosova’s Valentine Day: towards radical change on the day of loveThe party of the ousted government hopes that the February 14 election results will defend Kosova’s democratic...
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Published in: Home: OpinionMust immigrants sacrifice themselves to COVID-19 for basic rights?France’s granting of citizenship to essential workers has been heralded in the US. But this only entrenches racism...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Media critique in a very online worldThe place of journalism in an online world where criticism of news media is now ubiquitous.
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Published in: 50.50Four reasons why Poland’s war on abortion should scare youThis is not just ‘Poland being Poland’. These actions are illegal, inhumane and could spread across Europe – and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Could the Kosovo story end in Greater Albania?If Kosovo makes practical moves towards unification with Albania, the government in Belgrade will come under strong...
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