L’Europe est actuellement confrontée à une crise qui a de multiples dimensions. Cette crise a des effets non seulement sur l’économie, sur les systèmes sociaux, sur la politique et la démocratie à l’échelle du continent. Elle fait douter aussi de la légitimité même de la construction européenne et des valeurs qu’elle défend.
Haris Golemis: Just three years ago, Syriza’s presence in Greece’s political landscape was quite small. Today, Syriza is predicted to be the frontrunner in the next elections – making you the next...
Ce texte reprend sous une forme abrégée la conférence publique prononcée par Etienne Balibar le 23 mai 2013 à la Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna (« Lezione gramsciana 2013 »).
Europe is experiencing radical change. The civil war in Ukraine shows just how quickly events can take a dramatic and negative turn. That issues of domestic and foreign policy are to blame for this...
The right’s recent success2
The results of the 2014 European Parliament (EP) elections point to a shift to the right in the political spectrum – albeit to varying degrees in different countries. In...
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Preparing for the year 2014 gave historians a lot of work to do. The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 called forth many books on the character, origins, and...
Unwelcome developments at the EU level and economic imbalances within the EU and the euro area are often at the centre of critical analyses of the European crisis. There are popular and also justified...
Les traités européens, conjointement élaborés et décidés par la droite et la social-démocratie, ont juridiquement mis en place un verrou à vingt huit clefs qu’il faut actionner toutes simultanément pour permettre un changement de l’orientation fondamentale des politiques de l’Union.
La nécessité d’une « renaissance industrielle » semble à présent faire l’objet d’un assez large consensus. Alors que longtemps, l’industrie a été considérée comme faisant partie d’un héritage désuet,...
The policies in force in Europe
Research has a strong impact on human society and life. It should therefore be at the heart of democratic debate and decisions. But research policies are embodied...
Literally on a daily basis, the nature of the European Union’s relations with its neighbours is called into question by the never-ending refugee drama on the EU’s southern borders, the wars in Ukraine...
What if nobody attacks you?
Stane Dolanc (1925-1999) was one of the most important Slovenian politicians in former Yugoslavia and among a few of the close trusted friends of President Josip Broz...
La notion de bien commun est un terrain de lutte de classes de plus en plus récurrent. Cette référence à la notion de « Commun » ne pourrait-elle pas préfigurer un projet politique de dépassement de...
Elections européennes: un regard sur les rapports de force
Since the European election of 2014, there has been a split across Europe’s political landscape. While in the EU’s southern countries – especially in Greece, Spain and Portugal – the growing protest...
Political science literature has extensively described social democracy’s ‘two metamorphoses’. First there was the establishment of social democratic parties as major government parties in the...
With the Treaty of Lisbon, the financial crisis, austerity, public debt, European top candidates for European Commission President for the first time in European Parliament (EP) elections, all...
The Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti DF)2 was the big winner of the European Parliament (EP) elections in Denmark with 26.7 per cent of the votes. This represented a rise in the party’s votes...
Six years after the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, the 2014 European Parliament (EP) elections resulted in enlarged representation for the parties integrated in the group of the United...
The results of the recent European Parliament elections raise more questions than they answer. Almost all opinion polls and forecasts, even those based on refined socio-political analyses, have shown...
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival always presents a series called ‘East of the West’. The survey that follows will likewise look at the area east of the West, though in the slightly narrower sense of...
Taken together, the three Baltic republics Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania occupy an area about half the size of Germany. Poland, by contrast, is one of the largest EU member countries.
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For the last fifteen years, transform! has been working as a horizontal network with alternative thinking and political dialogue at its core. As the political foundation of the Party of the European...
EUROPE UNIE, EUROPE DIVISÉE. transform ! 2015Dominique Crozat, Elisabeth Gauthier, Louis Weber (coord.)
ISBN 978-2-36512-063-0 252 pages, livre brochéPublié en janvier 2015Éditions du CroquantPrix: €...