European Democracy: What is it? How would we design it anew. What do the youth of today see as being the best ways forward for the European Union? Coolpolitics held a brainstorming session with local members of the generation who will be the next to put these ideas into action. [more]

Media change is about more than just the "newspaper crisis" and the iPad: property law, privacy, free speech and the functioning of the public sphere are all affected. On a field experiencing profound and constant transformation. [more]

Despite the Internet's growing significance as vehicle of freedom of expression, public service broadcasting and the press will remain for some time the visible face of the watchdog on power. In western Europe, the traditional media need to prove they are still capable of performing this role. [more]

University strikes coincide with the ten-year anniversary of the Bologna process. Contributions to the debate enflaming (not only) Europe from Gesine Schwan, Marion von Osten, Richard Munch, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Nina Power and others. [more]

Social agreement about the necessity of radical ecological change may be unprecedented, yet rhetoric and reality go their separate ways. On the politics of global warming. [more]

From the cartoon crisis and minaret ban to the multiculturalism debate: on the politics of post-secular Europe. [more]

Sound in principle or sick at heart? Articles on the financial crisis analyse the crisis of contemporary capitalism. [more]

1989: not only historic moment of liberation, but also political and social dilemma for the present day. [more]

How media autonomy in Europe's newer democracies is inhibited by market forces and continuing political intervention. [more]

European solidarity requires a common history that accommodates the experiences of East and West. [more]

Texts on the issues of migration and cultural diversity, far beyond the common dichotomy of multicultural segregation and assimilation. [more]

Any reinvention of Europe that takes into account the complexities of it's place in a globalized world must contain a critique of Eurocentrism. [more]

The Beijing Olympics 2008 were unusual insofar as no country boycotted them. Eurozine compiles articles on sport, politics and protest. [more]

"In retrospect, the great event of 1968 in Europe was not Paris, but Prague." Articles on 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine... [more]

Populist politics are on the rise in Europe. Ivan Krastev, G.M.Tamás, Ralf Dahrendorf, Jacques Rupnik and others on democratic illiberalism. [more]

Cultural citizenship responds to the multicultural context of contemporary societies: texts by Ivaylo Ditchev, Charles Taylor, Rada Ivekovic... [more]

Are wars that are fought between nations a thing of the past, and are the future challenges more a case of ethnic strife and break-up of failed states? [more]

Democratic deficit, enlargement fatigue and ever more rescue funds: is there still a future for a common Europe? Therese Kaufmann, Ivan Krastev, Claus Offe, Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann, Martin M. Simecka diagnose causes for the current malaise of the EU. [more]

Perceived loss of sovereignty and rising hostility towards migrants are behind the nationalist revival in many EU member states. Yet in the countries of the former USSR, nationalism is associated with democratization. Andriy Shevchenko and David Van Reybrouck discuss whether talking about contemporary nationalism in East and West in the same terms is possible at all. [more]

The surge in "anti-politics" throughout Europe coincides with media marketization and the rise of digital technologies. Ivaylo Ditchev and Judith Vidal-Hall analyse media change and the loss of trust in political institutions. What happens to democracy when political decision-making relies increasingly on the opinion poll? [more]

Multiculturalism, the default strategy in western Europe for managing cultural diversity, is increasingly under attack from both Right and Left. If multiculturalism has reached its limits, what are the alternatives that can help manage diversity, both in the East and in the West? Kenan Malik and Fero Sebej in debate. [more]

While an historical-materialist approach to both culture and society has strong critical potential in western Europe, many eastern European intellectuals regard it sceptically. Jiri Pehe and Benedict Seymour ask whether Marxism - or even leftist politics - means one thing in the West and another in the East. [more]

The aggressive monetary policies of western financial institutions were a major factor for the crisis of eastern economies after the speculative bubble burst in 2008. Robert Misik and Daniel Daianu debate the ethical and political implications of western investment in eastern Europe and the globalized economy as a whole. [more]

In many European countries, a nationally framed approach to history clashes with those of neighbouring states. Danuta Glondys and Arne Ruth discuss the role of intellectuals in disputes over contested history and ask whether cross-border journalism can build an element of real universality into the European project. [more]

Martin M. Simecka and Laszlo Rajk, both sons of well-known persecuted communists, discuss the still unanswered questions surrounding the involvement of their fathers' generation in post-war communism, and the failings of today's debate about the past in the former communist countries. [more]

The EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict: its support of anything nominally reformist has been perceived as acceptance of a range of repressions, argues Mykola Riabchuk. [more]