Poland lurches to the right under Law and Justice Party
Beata Szydło, Poland's new Prime Minister. Photo by Piotr Drabik. In the October 25th Polish parliamentary elections, the right wing Law and Justice Party achieved the first majority seen since…
Vienna City Council elections: the first electoral test for the refugee crisis
Photo: The Vienna City Council Elections held on 11th October 2015 were a setback for the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), but far from a knockout blow. FPÖ failed to win a majority in…
Greek Green appointed deputy environment minister
Photo: Wikimedia A Greek Green politician has been re-appointed as the country’s deputy environment minister, following the victory of the left-wing Syriza coalition in Sunday’s national election. Giannis Tsironis is…
Finland – the social contract to wreck the welfare state
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä - everybody's best friend? Photo: Ulkoministeriö Last week, over 30 000 people gathered in the centre of Helsinki, Finland to demonstrate against the Finnish Government's labour…
Die Grünen – 20 years past the crossroads
The German Greens - changing with the times. Photo by Michael Reuter The German Green Party, or to give it its full name, Alliance ’90/The Greens (Bündis 90/Die Grünen), deserves…
We belong here! Hungarian activists fight back in refugee crisis
Romani activists from the Ide tartozunk! (We belong here!) network show their support to refugees in front of the Hungarian Parliament. Hungary and Austria are in spitting distance from each…
Jean Lambert MEP: the refugee crisis demands a coherent and strategic response
We can either throw our hands up at overwhelming human misery, or we can rally and do something – quickly. On Monday Britain announced meagre plans to accept refugees from…
Budapest diary: another brick in the wall
NATO specification barbed wire. Photo by Lars Plougmann. It reads like a work of fiction in instalments, published in the daily newspaper, Népszabadság, that I avidly study with my morning…
#Brexit is not #Grexit
Mini Europe. Photo by Smabs Sputzer At the height of the financial crisis, it quickly became a cliché to declare that one’s country was not another. “Spain is not Greece”…
Greek people reject austerity in decisive referendum vote
Mass demonstration for a 'no' vote at Syntagma Square, Athens. Photo: Wikimedia The people of Greece have voted to decisively reject austerity in today's referendum. Voters were asked whether to…