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Beyond Britain, Europe is awash with debate on themes such as the rise of nationalism and populism, youth unemployment and the ways societies are changing. We tap into the conversation, featuring voices and views from across the continent

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  • Shada Islam

    Europe's migration 'crisis' isn't about numbers. It's about prejudice

    Shada Islam
    Reforming the EU’s broken refugee policy also means confronting Orban’s view of Europe as a superior, white Christian club
  • Illustration: Andrzej Krauze

    Andrzej Krauze on a second wave of Covid-19 – cartoon

    With infection numbers rising, Europe is relying on pandemic measures that have scarcely changed since the Black Death in the 14th century
  • Black Lives Matter protesters gathered in Persan, France, during July to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Adama Traore, who died in police detention in 2016.

    There's a social pandemic poisoning Europe: hatred of Muslims

    Patrycja Sasnal and Yasemin El Menouar
    If anti-Muslim prejudice is not targeted, steps to counter racism in Europe in the wake of BLM protests will be meaningless, write Patrycja Sasnal and Yasemin El Menouar
  • Matteo Salvini (front) at a coalition rally for the League, Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia parties in Florence, Italy, September 2020

    Italy shows how easily Europe's leftwing strongholds can fall to the right

    Rosa Gilbert
    As the extreme right becomes increasingly mainstream, the left must make a better offer, says Florence-based writer Rosa Gilbert
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    Andrzej Krauze on Boris Johnson's latest Brexit manoeuvre – cartoon

    The UK, with an inflated view of its negotiating power, is threatening to renege on the EU withdrawal agreement
  • Illustration: Andrzej Krauze

    Andrzej Krauze on repression in Belarus – cartoon

    On the EU’s doorstep, Alexander Lukashenko remains in power after 26 years, deploying riot police to cling on amid widespread protests
  • Polish lawmakers dressed in rainbow colours to show support for the LGBT community, ahead of the swearing in ceremony of President Andrzej Duda for a second term

    In Poland we've become spectators at the dismantling of democracy

    Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz
    A disturbing future awaits the country after Andrzej Duda’s campaign, which merged politics, populism and entertainment
  • A protest in Rome demanding the approval of a law that would give citizenship rights to migrants born or raised in Italy, November 2017.

    Europe treats undocumented children with less care than livestock

    Michele Levoy
    Countless young people are being pushed to Europe’s margins by hardline border and migration policies, says Michele LeVoy, director of PICUM
  • Illustration by Andrzej Krauze

    Andrzej Krauze on Europe's attempts to avoid further Covid-19 outbreaks – cartoon

    Quarantine is again being used as a means to try to stop the spread of coronavirus
  • EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier arrives at 10 Downing Street ahead of a meeting with his British counterpart David Frost on 7 July.

    I'm optimistic about a Brexit deal – despite the gloomy outlook

    Charles Grant
    Both Brussels and London grasp the political advantages of even a minimal free trade agreement, says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform
  • Lufthansa employees call for a government rescue package at Frankfurt airport, Germany, 24 June 2020

    To save the EU, its leaders must first focus on saving the planet

    Daniel Judt, Reja Wyss and Antonia Zimmermann
    European countries are spending big to revive their economies, but they will have no legitimacy with young people if they ignore the climate, say Daniel Judt, Reja Wyss and Antonia Zimmermann of Oxford University
  • Illustration: Andrzej Krauze

    Andrzej Krauze on alleged Russia meddling – cartoon

    In the week MPs published their report, ministers said Russian state-sponsored hackers were targeting UK scientists developing a coronavirus vaccine
  • Shada Islam

    The world needs grown-up leadership. Time for Germany to step up

    Shada Islam
    There’s a unique chance for Europe to fill the vacuum left by the retreating US, says Brussels-based commentator Shada Islam
  • Refugees fleeing Bosnian Serb troops gather at Tuzla airport, eastern Bosnia, in July 1995.

    I prosecuted Srebrenica war criminals, but I know others are still walking free

    Serge Brammertz
    Until we bring all the genocide’s perpetrators to justice, we are again failing the boys and men massacred in Bosnia in July 1995
  • Illustration: Andrzej Krauze

    Andrzej Krauze on the risks of coronavirus complacency – cartoon

    As life across Europe gets back to normal, Covid-19 prepares the next wave of outbreaks
  • illustration by Andrzej krauze

    Andrzej Krauze on Europe's easing of lockdown – cartoon

  • FILE PHOTO: Sign assures people that bar is open during coronavirus outbreak in Stockholm<br>FILE PHOTO: A sign assures people that the bar is open during the coronavirus outbreak, outside a pub in Stockholm, Sweden March 26, 2020. Picture taken March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Colm Fulton/File Photo

    Swedish exceptionalism has been ended by coronavirus

    Erik Augustin Palm
  • Timothy Garton Ash

    For a bitter taste of Polish populism, just watch the evening news

    Timothy Garton Ash
    Poland’s public broadcaster has entered the paranoid realm of the far right. A presidential election shows what is at stake, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
  • The Reichstag reflected in a Berlin window.

    Germans know that toppling a few statues isn't enough to confront the past

    Géraldine Schwarz
    Britain should acknowledge that millions were complicit in the crimes of empire, just as Germans like my grandfather enabled nazism, writes author Géraldine Schwarz
  • Drive-in concert in Riga, 11 June 2020.

    Why are Google and Apple dictating how European democracies fight coronavirus?

    Ieva Ilves
    In Latvia we wanted to harness smartphone technology for contact tracing. We ran into a Silicon Valley-built brick wall, says Ieva Ilves, an adviser to the Latvian president
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