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Democracy is being obliterated in Hong Kong

Xi Jinping is a man in a hurry. He is 67 next month and wants, as his legacy, China to overtake the US as the dominant economic and military might on earth. To achieve that, Xi has accumulated enough power to make a Roman emperor blush.

Zelensky’s victory in Ukraine is a strategic loss for Putin

As Europe gets ready for its biggest nation in the west of Europe to say goodbye under a nationalist leadership, and a parliament unable to control the executive at the other end of Europe, the parliament of Ukraine has just been elected with serious hopes for the first time since the Berlin Wall fell that

Macron emerges victorious as a new EU leadership rejects Brexit and anti-EU populism

In a stunning reaffirmation of core European values, the next European leadership team will be led by women and men who are strongly committed to European partnership and opposed to the anti-European ideology of Boris Johnson, Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen.

Europe’s future looks brighter as the Spanish election shows Europe’s far right insurgency can be tamed

Spain is defying the grave-diggers of progressive liberal European politics. The election to the Cortes, far from seeing the right sweep into power with voters turning to the rightist VOX party produced the re-election of the young left socialist Pedro Sanchez who has brought back the Spanish socialist party, PSOE, from the wilderness.

Labour could destroy the Brexit Party and Tories in the European elections, but only if it backs Remain

Has a small political miracle taken place? For the first time since the Brexit vote, Labour has been able to show a coherent, confident profile on Europe in place of the confused contradictory circumlocutions associated with the Corbyn shadow cabinet’s appearances on the BBC, and in other media.