⌛️ This article is more than 3 years oldThis is an edition of the Europa newsletter. You can sign up here. 2020 already brought two new governments, and both have created some discussion because of the coalitions they involve. In Madrid a new coalition of the center-left PES and the radical left Unidas Podemos (itself…
Author: Filipe Henriques
Europa 02 – The UK Edition ??
⌛️ This article is more than 3 years oldThis is an edition of the Europa newsletter. You can sign up here. Hey! Welcome to one of the most politically-relevant weeks of 2019! This Thursday the United Kingdom will vote in an election that will shape the way the European Union works for the next decade. Due to…
How to destroy the EU while trying to save it
⌛️ This article is more than 6 years oldThe European Union’s democracy deficit has been widely discussed and analyzed over decades and a wide consensus has been reached that the biggest problem is the lack of a public sphere or, in other words, the lack of the politicization that we clearly see in our national…
The Grand Coalition is over. But it can’t.
⌛️ This article is more than 6 years oldGianni PittellaPD – Italy, the leader of the European Socialists in the European Parliament, announced the end of the Grand Coalition between EPPPeople’s Party , S&DSocialists, and ALDELiberals . The election of Antonio TajaniFI – Italy as the new President of the European Parliament showed it, as…
Sorry, British Eurosceptics, but there was no coup in Portugal
⌛️ This article is more than 7 years oldThis article was first published in The Guardian Last Saturday, after landing at Lisbon airport and checking Twitter, I discovered that a coup d’etat was taking place in Portugal, my home country. Or at least an English-speaking coup, since the Portuguese-speaking users in my Twitter feed were…