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Marc-Antoine Delacroix
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France / Western Europe
How the Centre Normalised the Far Right
The far right did not storm the gates of European respectability on its own. It was escorted in, one rhetorical concession at a time,…
Contributing Editor, Paris
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Dimitra Papadimitriou
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Southern Europe / Eurozone
The Euro’s Unfinished Austerity Reckoning
Fifteen years after the sovereign debt crisis, Southern Europe’s economies are presented as recovery stories. But beneath the GDP headline numbers, the structural damage…
Economist and Contributor, Athens
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Arben Qorraj
Enlargement Fatigue and the Western Balkans Trap
The European Union has spent two decades promising the Western Balkans a future inside the bloc. The promises have become a trap — binding enough to shape domestic…
Western Balkans / EU Enlargement
Foreign Policy Writer, Pristina
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Katrien Vandenberghe
The Democratic Deficit Brussels Will Not Name
The European Union’s institutions operate under a democratic logic that most European citizens have never been invited to understand — and that opacity is not accidental but structural,…
EU Institutions
Political Analyst, Brussels
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