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Tag: Europe

Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.

Mark Weisbrot

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

Paul Linden-Retek

The Front National is not in government, but it’s still making gains.

Arthur Goldhammer

The history of terrorism in France offers lessons in how best to respond to the Paris attacks.

Julian Bourg

Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the UK Labour Party, is helping to revive the radical left.

Martin O’Neill

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

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France's own political traditions can accommodate visible Islam and heal social divisions.

John Bowen
Overnight, the hopeful, broad-based, grassroots independence movement gave rise to the righteous wronged.
Stephen Phelan

Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.

Stephen Phelan

In the face of Putin's rejection of democracy, Europe’s democrats must underscore the importance of the EU’s norms: social justice, sustainability, diplomacy, diversity, and freedom of movement.

Paul Hockenos
Totalitarianism’s linguistic aggression.
Costica Bradatan

Guardian journalist Uki Goñi discusses his career reporting from Buenos Aires.

Jessica Sequeira

Yascha Mounk explores Jewish identity in modern Germany.

Lucy McKeon

Ahren Warner strikes a seductive compact between the older and younger camps of British poetry.

Dai George

The biggest threat to Greece's left-wing coalition is itself.

Yanis Varoufakis

Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way?

David Bacon

A wheeling book of aspirations and frustrations, London: A History in Verse offers us a literary treasury: a record of the city, a roll of its events.

Lytton Smith

The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

Vivian Gornick

When two scientists discover a book looted by the Nazis, they seek out the rightful heir and in the process explore the reparations process of early postwar days.

Niko Kohls, Karin Andert

In France, a Strange, Last-Ditch Campaign Against Marriage Equality

Cécile Alduy

“Adolf is coming,” warned Liana Kanelli, Greek communist and Member of Parliament, during our July interview in her office in the parliament building in central Athens.

Ari Paul

Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.

Paul Hockenos

Toward a realistic world heritage list.

Andrew Blackwell

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