Danish lawyer, executive director of the Future of Free Speech Project at Vanderbilt University, and senior fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He is the author of Free ...
Has Europe’s crackdown on free speech become a bigger threat to democracy than ‘the extremists’ it seeks to contain?
Former President of the EU Parliament Martin Schulz on defending democracy, the importance of honest communication and ...
Maïthé Chini is a Belgian journalist who has been working at The Brussels Times for more than six years. She focuses on Belgian politics and social issues, and aims to make her country’s unique quirks ...
The election results in Honduras are still uncertain. But one thing is certain — the ruling left-wing party has suffered a ...
Over 542 days without a government in Brussels. Maybe it’s time for a conclave: lock them together, throw away the key and ...
While Trump reorganises Europe’s neighbourhood, the EU remains reactive. Its habitual passivity could relegate it to a ...
The current ‘peace plan’ is less about conflict settlement than about the Kremlin’s fears and its desire to control Ukraine ...
The long decline of social democracy began with the ‘Third Way’. Since then, it has been searching for a new direction ...
The corruption scandal in the country continues to spread, and the pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy is mounting. On Friday, ...
Former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin on the fragile ceasefire and how Israel’s 2026 elections could shift the ...
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Professor of Public Policy, Government and Business and Policy Director of the Productivity Institute at the University of Manchester. He is a board member at Skills England and a governor at the ...