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Beaten by the FSB, and having escaped into Lithuania by leaping from a moving train, Daniil Mukhametov is set to be deported back to Russia. Can this really be how Europe treats war heroes?

#Russia #Ukraine #Desertion #Military #Conflict #Finland #Lithuania #Geopolitics
Europe Should Welcome Every Russian Draft Dodger
Finland and Lithuania are about to send a young man to his death. The 21-year-old in question is Daniil Mukhametov, who has fled Russia to avoid forced military service. Pursued by Russian police, he ...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Downing Street would do anything for a bit of Zohran’s zeal, but can such magic cross the Atlantic?

#ZohranMamdani #Mamdani #UKPolitics #Politics #SocialMedia
What Can Downing Street Learn From Zohran’s Zeal?
As Zohran Mamdani seizes New York City, what does this 34-year-old’s feat say about politicians further afield?On November 4th, Zohran Kwame Mamdani became the first Muslim to be elected to the New Yo...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Endless leadership speculation and a revolving door at No. 10, last summer did little but replace a Tory psychodrama with a Labour one. Can anything break the curse?

#Politics #UKPolitics #Labour #Starmer #Tories #Farage #ReformUK
Late-Stage Tory Malaise - How Did Labour Go So Wrong So Quickly?
It was meant to be different. When Labour rode to a massive 174 seat majority in July 2024, despite a palpable lack of excitement about the Keir Starmer project, a feeling that at least the adults wer...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Mass deportations and a cabinet stuffed with businessmen hardly go hand in hand - so does Farage defy definition? Or does his craven corporatism portend centrism once in power?

#Politics #UKPolitics #Europe #Nationalism #Centrism #Populism
Amorphous Centrism
Occasionally, you stumble across something that perfectly articulates the current zeitgeist. Recently, Tim Stanley on the Daily T podcast explained that Farage and Reform are neither a right-wing nor ...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Verdis claims a Croatian “blockade”. Its president tells us what’s really happening: recognition battles, funding struggles, and Europe’s boldest micronation’s next move. Watch now!

#Verdis #EasternEurope #Croatia #Serbia #Politics #Micronation #Politics
In Conversation with the President of the Free Republic of Verdis: Eighteen Months On
Eighteen months after our first interview, Europinion sat down once more with Daniel Jackson, the President of the self-declared Free Republic of Verdis, to reflect on how this ambitious micronational...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Do Reform have a point if they break tax and spend promises, like Labour, and embrace economic orthodoxy, like Labour?

#UKPolitics #NigelFarage #ReformUK #BritishPolitics #Economy
Farage has formally torn up Reform’s manifesto, and replaced it with a baseless fiscal hodgepodge
They called it a contract with the people to signify that promises made before the 2024 general election would be kept to their voters. Last Monday they finally put what was left of it in the shredder...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Valencia’s President Mazón has announced his resignation. His delayed and defiant exit obscures both his callous incompetence and the unrelated egregious havocs he wreaked on Valencia.

#Valencia #Flood #Politics #Spain #EU
Valencia Marks One Year Since Deadly Floods as its Omnicrisis Deepens
Valencia has been the talk of the town this past year, but perhaps not for the best of reasons. In a period of political instability in Spain, the Valencian Community has stood out for various corrupt...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Cardamom-themed rappers and dubious hypnotherapists have led a grassroots renewal of leftism on both sides of the pond, but can they face fascism?

#Mamdani #Polanski #Leftism #Grassroots #Populism #Socialism
‘Turning Left’: Mamdani, Polanski, and the Grassroots Renewal of Hope
“Turn the volume up!” was the emphatic cry from Zohran Mamdani to (a likely enraged) Donald Trump as he celebrated his victory in New York City’s 2025 mayoral election. Mamdani, who rode a wave of gro...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Brussels is tying exploitative surrogacy to human trafficking, but with the industry expected to expand ninefold ($196 billion by 2034), can anything other than a crackdown stem the bleeding?

#Surrogacy #Legal #Law #Europe #EU #Politics
Surrogacy, Exploitation and Europe’s Legal Gaps
In the heat of Summer 2023, as tourists swarmed Crete’s postcard-perfect beaches, Greek police raided a fertility clinic in the port town of Chania. What they uncovered was a sophisticated operation i...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Brussels, the capital of a purportedly free-trading and green transition-leading union, assails, via tariffs, the world’s most efficient EV producer, China. What should it do instead?

#EV #ElectricVehicles #Economics #Tariffs #EU #China
Europe's EV Tariffs Protect the Past, Not the Planet
Europe is sabotaging its own climate goals by prioritising the protection of its car industry over allowing affordable Chinese electric vehicles in. This turns the green transition into a trade disput...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Your Party and the Greens are equally discomforted by all they have in common, but is it merely the narcissism of small differences that keeps them from uniting?

#Left #Polanski #Corbyn #Sultana #Greens #YourParty #UKPolitics
The New Left’s Pillars of Salt and Sand
For context, ‘new left’ encompasses both the recently formed Your Party and the revitalised Green Party under Zack Polanski. At the moment, these two separate parties have even been campaigning side-b...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Rule of law debacles rivalling Poland and Hungary, rapes and murders left uninvestigated sans explanation, how does Cyprus’s constitution keep getting away with it?

#Cyprus #Mediterranean #Politics #EU #Geopolitics #Democracy
The Rule of Law Illusion in Cyprus – Independence Without Accountability
Cyprus seldom appears in Europe's rule of law debates. While Brussels scrutinises Poland and Hungary for dismantling judicial independence, the Republic of Cyprus quietly maintains the façade of a wel...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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"What binds Polanski and Mamdani is not only their left-wing credentials, but their rejection of political cynicism."

Let's go! 🎉

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How Zack Polanksi And Zohran Mamdani Transformed What It Means To Be A Left-Wing Politician
Newly elected leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanksi, has taken British politics by storm. The self-proclaimed ‘eco-populist’ has resurrected the Green Party’s reputation amongst voters and driven t...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Can socialism, given emergent fascism, amount to more than mere Corbyn-style activism? The unapologetic leftisms of Mamdani and Polanski proffer progressive hope, argues Kara Evans.

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How Zack Polanksi And Zohran Mamdani Transformed What It Means To Be A Left-Wing Politician
Newly elected leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanksi, has taken British politics by storm. The self-proclaimed ‘eco-populist’ has resurrected the Green Party’s reputation amongst voters and driven t...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The Dutch defenestrated their odious De Wilders this week, awarding a plurality to centrist D66. But at just 17%, ought we to see this victory as a comfort, or the uncovering of a curse?

#Netherlands #DutchPolitics #Politics #D66 #VVD #DeWilders #RobJetten
A Very Centrist Triumph - Hollow Victory in the Netherlands
In a result that few expected, the centrist-liberal D66 has won a plurality of seats in this year’s Dutch elections, narrowly fending off the far-right PVV. Many publications internationally have hail...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Yearly presidents and monthly street violence are lampooned in this vicious broadside against the institutional cancers perennially produced by Latin America’s presidentialism obsession.

#Peru #LatinAmerica #Politics #America #JoséJerí #Trending
Peru And Its Endless Political Succession
When it comes to political crises in Latin America, Peru is always on everyone's lips. The country suffered yet another political earthquake early last month, ending the presidency of Dina Boluarte. T...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Can municipal socialism return to Macedonia? Amar Mecinović, the Left candidate for mayor of Skopje, tells all.

#Skopje #NorthMacedonia #Politics #Socialism #Balkans #Trending
In Conversation With Amar Mecinović, Left Candidate For Mayor Of Skopje
On the 19th of October this year the first round of the local elections in North Macedonia were held. This country is home to one of the fastest growing left-wing parties in Europe: Levica (the Left)....
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October 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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How long can any government stand their lifeline being Vladimir Putin’s Russia? Zach Rogers concludes the regime at Tblisi ought to be sanctioned at once.

#Russia #Europe #Georgia #Putin #EuropeanUnion #Politics #Trending
Dream On Democracy: Democratic Backsliding Under Georgian Dream
October 4th saw a landslide victory for the Georgian Dream Party, securing them sixty-four out of sixty-four districts on only forty-one percent voter turnout, signalling significant corruption at wor...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Should AI be allowed anywhere near public policy? And is Europe’s pursuit of an authentically European AI fuelling a self-fulfilling prophecy of AI dystopia?

#AI #EU #EuropeanUnion #Politics #Technology #TechPolicy
Why The AI Race Has No Place In Public Policy
Though AI safety is often perceived as an overly nihilistic field of study, it has become an increasingly prevalent feature of international policy debates ranging from its use in courts and parliamen...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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What can Halloween tell us about pearl-clutching patriotism, spectral Stalins & Thatchers & Blairs, and the myriad vagaries of Marxism?

#Halloween #Politics #Culture #Opinion #Trending #News
The Politics of Halloween
Though I cannot recall quite how, I recently stumbled across a fascinating POLITICO article by former Harvard lecturer John F. Muller titled “Halloween Is More Political Than You Think”. It discusses ...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Washington seems hopelessly performative and polarised, but can we find hope in the witch trials of a century ago, and particularly in the illuminating commentary of one W.E.B. Du Bois?

#USPolitics #Trump #PamBondi #WEBduBois #CultureWar #Trending #News
Pam Bondi, W. E. B. Du Bois, And America's Never-Ending Monkey Trial
For the Senate Judiciary Committee to work, there must be a gap between the requisite information and the Senate’s ultimate decision. The committee should have a concentrated body of senators to disco...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Georgia’s political schizophrenia sees it vacillate between Brussels and Moscow, but who directs the disinformation responsible, and is there still hope for Georgian self-determination?

#Georgia #Disinformation #EU #Russia #NATO #MediaLiteracy #News #Politics #Trending
Media, Trust, and Disinformation: Who Controls the Narrative in Georgia?
IntroductionIn a country positioned at the crossroads of East and West, the battle for hearts and minds is increasingly fought not on the battlefield, but in the media. Once the frontrunner of the so-...
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October 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Scandal kills in Britain, sells in America. What does that says about democracy on both sides of the Atlantic?

#USPolitics #UKPolitics #Politics #Trump #Starmer #Rayner #Labour #MAGA
Why Westminster Apologises and Washington Moves On
Until September, Angela Rayner was a key figure in the British government, serving as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, and Deputy Pr...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Asfandiyar problematises Gen Z’s disenfranchisement, identifying the economic inertia and digital blackouts that have crippled the only group capable of rescuing Pakistani politics.

#GenZ #Pakistan #Politics #Economics #News
The Political Neutering of Pakistan's Gen Z
A generation born online, coming of age under curfews, censorship  and increasingly choosing exit over engagement.Some books really fit the evolving dynamics of a country, and Stephen P. Cohen’s The I...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Charles Cann builds on his vivisection of American agricultural diplomacy, advancing Brazil as the new paragon of the fight for the human right to food.

#FoodSecurity #HumanRights #Politics #UnitedStates #Brazil
The War From Which Everyone Can Emerge Victorious: A Glimpse Of The New Champions Of Food Security At The United Nations
Given the limelight on Donald Trump’s oration this year at the UN General Assembly, one would be forgiven for thinking it will not go down in history books as a stage from which was delivered a rousin...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM