Eurosceptics, Moderate EU-Supporters and Federalists
However, there are many who think that future challenges can only be faced by further enlargement and deepening of the European unification process.
Politics
“European Crisis”: A Tragedy or an Opportunity?
Can this situation be a kick start for a new Europe? Are we in the middle of a tragedy or at the beginning of an opportunity?
Towards a Democratic Confederation
And I will end with a proposal for a new institutional framework, grounded on the understanding that we should recognize the confederal nature of the European Union, but that we should at last integrate true democracy in it.
Giving Out
The Catalonian president has unilaterally declared the date of an independence referendum – November 9, 2014. The Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, supported by the EU president Herman Van Rompuy, has immediately declared that there will not be any referendum.
Sordid Isolation
Cameron got Britain into an isolation. Isolation that is not splendid at all.
A Liberal View on Populism
That brings me to my main point; the biggest threat to Europe is economic populism. The European debt crisis has proved what should have been clear much earlier.
The Far Right: “Normal Pathology” of Democracy and Its Consequences in Denmark and Slovakia
New populist extreme right which “assumed a political party form” is found also in other European countries and in the democracies of the third wave – post-communist countries.
The Geopolitical Role of Vatican
In all the established democratic Western societies, the very popular and charismatic pontificate of Pope John Paul II did not interrupt, or even slow down, the pace of the secularisation process.
Another Sort of Occupy Movement: Bulgaria
The foreign press wrongly describes this party is far right. In reality it is extreme populist, nationalist in Nazi sense, uses NSDAP-like regalia, advocates nationalization of industries and land, expel of foreign investors, sterilizing gypsies and restricting the rights of Muslims, central planning of exchange and interest rates, prices and wages, getting the country out of NATO and the EU.
Are We Witnessing the Declining Marginal Utility of Freedom?
With this in mind, we wish the protesters in Ukraine well and hope that their situation, where the confrontation with the state is direct, visible and imminent, also clarifies it to the rest of the world that the struggle is always there.
