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Episode NotesDiscussion Highlights:Europe's Democratic Challenges: How can the EU defend its core values against rising authoritarianism?Ukraine's Struggle and Global Freedom: Why does Ukraine's resistance matter beyond its borders?Populism and Economic Inequality: How have neoliberal policies contributed to democratic erosion?The Role of Transnational Civil Society: Can grassroots movements counter authoritarian trends?Technology, Capitalism, and Democracy: How does the digital age reshape political power?Serbia's Grassroots Protests: Why is Serbia's movement for democracy significant for Europe?EU Foreign Policy and Strategic Autonomy: Can Europe navigate an era of geopolitical realignment?France's Constitutional Crisis: What does the future hold for the French Republic's democratic model?About Niccolò MilaneseNiccolò Milanese is a political theorist, activist, and co-founder of European Alternatives, a transnational movement advocating for democracy and equality beyond nation-states. He has co-authored Citizens of Nowhere: How to Save Europe from Itself and edited Illiberal Democracies in Europe: An Authoritarian Response to the Crisis of Liberalism. Milanese regularly advises cultural, political, and activist organizations on issues of European democracy, citizenship, and generational change.Find more about European Alternatives at euroalter.com.Further Reading & ResourcesEuropean Alternatives' Initiatives: euroalter.comNiccolò Milanese's Books & Articles: Citizens of Nowhere, Illiberal Democracies in EuropeInstitute for Human Sciences (IWM): iwm.at Ivan Vejvoda is Head of the Europe's Futures program at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna) implemented in partnership with ERSTE Foundation. The program is dedicated to the cultivation of knowledge and the generation of ideas addressing pivotal challenges confronting Europe and the European Union: nexus of borders and migration, deterioration in rule of law and democracy and European Union's enlargement prospects.The Institute for Human Sciences is an institute of advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences. Founded as a place of encounter in 1982 by a young Polish philosopher, Krzysztof Michalski, and two German colleagues in neutral Austria, its initial mission was to create a meeting place for dissenting thinkers of Eastern Europe and prominent scholars from the West.Since then it has promoted intellectual exchange across disciplines, between academia and society, and among regions that now embrace the Global South and North. The IWM is an independent and non-partisan institution, and proudly so. All of our fellows, visiting and permanent, pursue their own research in an environment designed to enrich their work and to render it more accessible within and beyond academia.For further information about the Institute:https://www.iwm.at/

Thousands of kilometres from the devastating war it's been waging in Ukraine, Russia has involved itself in a swathe of other conflicts that attract much less attention: in Africa. Why? This week we speak to Beverly Ochieng, a self-described Wagner Group stalker, about what Russia is playing at. We're also talking about a foul-mouthed (?) Eurovision controversy, and why none of the world's big bad tech giants come from Europe.    Beverly is a senior analyst for francophone Africa at Control Risks and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. You can follow her here on Bluesky and here on Mastodon. Check out our full conversation with Beverly on our YouTube channel.   Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoy our podcasts, we'd love it if you'd consider supporting our work. You can chip in to help us cover the weekly research and production of The Europeans at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (many currencies are available), or gift a donation to a super fan here. We'd also love it if you could tell two friends about this podcast!      This podcast was brought to you in cooperation with Euranet Plus, the leading radio network for EU news.   This week's Inspiration Station recommendations: Codenames and The Economist's Glass Ceiling Index.    Other resources for this week's episode   European Alternatives - euro-companies making all kinds of digital products: https://european-alternatives.eu/   Jitsi, the great Zoom alternative created by a swing-dancing Erasmus student: https://jitsi.org/   'The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World' by Anu Bradford: https://academic.oup.com/book/36491   Fact-check: Does the EU really buy 80% of its weapons from overseas? (No, no it doesn't.) Bluesky thread by The Economist's Stanley Pignal, March 9, 2025: https://bsky.app/profile/spignal.bsky.social/post/3ljxd4r4cos25   Miriana Conte - Kant (‘Singing'); National Final Performance, Eurovision Song Contest 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNK1tt6L5k   00:33  Smellovision and feminist babies 03:32  Bad Week: Skype 25:19  Good Week: Language prudes 37:39  Interview: Beverly Ochieng on Russia's African antics 53:40  The Inspiration Station: Codenames and The Economist's Glass Ceiling Index 56:44  Happy Ending: Easier breathing for Londoners   Producers: Morgan Childs and Wojciech Oleksiak Mixing and mastering: Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina   YouTube | Bluesky | Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | hello@europeanspodcast.com    

Aufzeichnung der 6. Ausgabe der "Power to the People" Webinarreihe (Europe Calling #181) vom 22.2.2024 Eine Kooperation von European Alternatives, European University Institute, Europe Calling, Mehr Demokratie, Another Europe is Possible, Citizens Takeover Europe, ECI Campaign und The Democratic Odyssey

Aufzeichnung der 6. Ausgabe der "Power to the People" Webinarreihe (Europe Calling #181) vom 22.2.2024 Eine Kooperation von European Alternatives, European University Institute, Europe Calling, Mehr Demokratie, Another Europe is Possible, Citizens Takeover Europe, ECI Campaign und The Democratic Odyssey

Democracy in Question? is brought to you by:• Central European University: CEU• The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD• The Podcast Company: scopeaudio Follow us on social media!• Central European University: @CEU• Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: @AHDCentre Subscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review and sharing our podcast in your networks!  GlossaryDemocratic Odyssey (02:19 or p.1 in the transcript)The Democratic Odyssey is a decentralized, collaborative, and transparent exercise of crowdsourcing and co-creation kicked-off by a core consortium composed of The European University Institute's School of Transnational Governance, Particip-Action, European Alternatives, Citizens Take Over Europe, The Democracy and Culture Foundation, Democracy Next, Mehr Demokratie, Eliamep, The Real Deal, Phoenix, The European Capital of Democracy, as well as the Berggruen and Salvia Foundations. This community is open to all who want to be involved. Threatened from within and outside by the rise of partisan hyper-polarization, authoritarian buy-in, disinformation and electoral interference, European democracy is under attack on all sides. As Europe needs to address citizens' sense of disenfranchisement, pathways to renewal are necessary. For the Democratic Odyssey consortium, part of the solution lies in creating a standing European People's Assembly that will become a core part of the institutional landscape of the European Union, made of citizens selected by lot, serving on a rotating basis. This project comes at an opportune moment. In the past five years, in Europe, there have been ten national assemblies and around 70 local assemblies on the topic of climate change alone. The EU itself took a huge leap with the Conference on the Future of Europe which integrated transnational, multi-lingual, sortition-based deliberation into the policy making process. The Conference planted a seed which the Democratic Odyssey wants to make flourish. As James Mackay, the project's coordinator, declared in a recent interview with European Alternatives: “we are not aiming at making a ‘perfect' assembly (whatever that would even mean). Our hope is more modest: to offer a “proof of concept” that, in the window between the EP elections but before the new Commissions convenes, can bring grassroots and institutional actors together to consider how citizens' participation can be institutionalized in the longer term.” source

Belonging and becoming: strengthening the EU projectIn this episode Daniel Martínek engages in an exploration of European identity and the challenges it faces. Our guest, Niccolò Milanese, founding director of European Alternatives, sheds light on the need to strengthen the European Union in the thick of growing Euroscepticism. We touch upon the interplay of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in shaping the European identity, while considering the diverse interpretations of Europeanness across the region. Join us as we navigate these fundamental questions surrounding what it means to be European in today's evolving landscape. Our click here to know more about host's piece of art recommendation.Host: Daniel MartínekProduction and Editing: Gloria Becerril Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Poland has dumped its far right government in a historic election victory for pro-democratic forces. After years of authoritarianism and anti-migrant racism, the Law and Justice party have been defeated by a coalition of pro-democratic parties.  In this podcast, Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper talk to Polish activist Ana Oppenheim about the historic triumph of liberals, pro-democrats and the left. A member of the Another Europe National Committee, co-host of the Polish news and history podcast Polkast and an activist with the left-wing party Razem (personal capacity), Ana offers her thoughts on the election, and what it means for European politics and Ukraine's resistance to Russian imperialism.  The podcast is published as part of the Ukraine and the World series, an initiative taken in collaboration with Foreign Policy in Focus – Institute for Policy Studies in the United States and our longstanding partner, European Alternatives. 

In the first podcast in our Ukraine and the World series, Luke Cooper talks to Masha Shynkarenko, a Research Associate with the Ukraine in European Dialogue programme at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and an expert on the Russian colonisation of Crimea and the Crimean Tartar national movement.  They discuss the long history of Russian and Soviet imperialism in the Crimean peninsula, life under Russian occupation, and the need for nuance and complexity in discussion of what decolonisation of Crimea should look like in practice.  The Ukraine and the World series is an initiative taken in collaboration with Foreign Policy in Focus - Institute for Policy Studies in the United States and our longstanding partner, European Alternatives.  Members of Another Europe get access to extra material as a benefit of membership. In this pod's extra time, Masha and Luke discuss the implications of the decolonisation of Crimea for the wider appeals to decolonisation globally and the fall of empires in the 21st century.

Recording of part 2 of the 4th Power-to-the-People webinar, a cooperation of European Alternatives, European University Institute, Europe Calling, Mehr Demokratie, Another Europe is Possible, Citizens Takeover Europe. On 29 June with sociologist Sven Hillenkamp and hundreds of people discussion in breakout rooms. Moderated by Sarah Händel of Mehr Demokratie e.V.

Aufzeichnung des 4. Webinars der Power-to-the-People-Gruppe, einer Kooperation aus European Alternatives, European University Institute, Europe Calling, Mehr Demokratie, Another Europe is Possible, Citizens Takeover Europe. Am 22. Juni zum Thema „Klima-Erschöpfung: Wie aus Ohnmacht Veränderung werden kann” Unsere Gäste waren: - Caroline Hickman, Psychologin an der University of Bath (UK), spezialisiert auf Klimapsychologie und Umwelt-Angst, bekannte Rednerin und Autorin - Sven Hillenkamp, Soziologe, Autor und Analytiker der Klimaprotestbewegung mit einer Vorgeschichte in radikalen Protestbewegungen - Terry Reintke, Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments für die deutsche grüne Partei und Co-Vorsitzende der Grünen/EFA-Fraktion - Matteo Innocenti, Psychiater und Botschafter für den Europäischen Klimapakt - Louis Fidel, Gründungsmitglied der HEC (École des hautes études commerciales Paris) und ehemaliger Präsident der Ökologengesellschaft der HEC - Kira Hoffmann, Vertreterin der Gruppe „Letzte Generation“ in Deutschland

Recording of the 4th webinar of the Power-to-the-People group, a cooperation of European Alternatives, European University Institute, Europe Calling, Mehr Demokratie, Another Europe is Possible, Citizens Takeover Europe. On 22 June on the topic: “Climate Fatigue: How to turn powerlessness into change?” Our guests were: - Caroline Hickman, psychologist at the University of Bath (UK), specialising in climate psychology and environmental anxiety, well-known speaker and author. - Sven Hillenkamp, sociologist, author and analyst of the climate protest movement with a background in radical protest movements - Terry Reintke, Member of the European Parliament for the German Green Party and Co-Chair of the Greens/EFA Group - Matteo Innocenti, psychiatrist and ambassador for the European Climate Pact - Louis Fidel, founding member of the HEC (École des hautes études commerciales Paris) and former President of the Ecology Society of the HEC - Kira Hoffmann, representative of the group "Last Generation" in Germany

This week saw a political earthquake in Italy — albeit one that had been widely predicted. With Giorgia Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy poised to lead the new government, just how scared should we be? We ring up the philosopher Lorenzo Marsili to help us understand what just happened. We're also talking about fair pensions for Swiss women, and a Spanish lagoon that can now call itself a person. Lorenzo is the founder of the progressive civil society movement European Alternatives. You can follow him on Twitter here. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few bucks a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast (many currencies are available). You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review or giving us five stars on Spotify. This week's Isolation Inspiration: 'Flying to LA' by Maro feat. Lisa Oduor-Noah 'I'll Come Too' by James Blake 'Broken Greek' by Pete Paphides and the accompanying Spotify playlist 02:18 Good Week: The Mar Menor 06:43 Bad Week: Swiss women 13:57 Interview: Lorenzo Marsili on the Italian elections 28:16 Isolation Inspiration: Maro and Broken Greek 32:07 Happy Ending: We can't wait for Rail Baltica Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | hello@europeanspodcast.com

This is a special crossover between Spadework and European Alternatives. Earlier this year, our co-host Daniel Gutiérrez, had been a fellow at European Alternatives' Academy of Migrant Organizing – a structure dedicated to bringing together migrant organizers and activists across Germany in order to talk about shared organizational and movement-building problems in the hope that we can develop a lasting forum of collective co-research and co-learning.  As part of this forum, fellows were asked to collectively forge a toolbox addressing shared problems they highlighted and uncovered over the course of the fellowship. This episode functions as a contribution to that toolbox that you can find on Instagram and in the episode notes. In this episode, Daniel talks to Academy of Migrant Organizing fellow Berena Yogarajah about the difficulties of working across difference, allyship, comradeship, and problems that often surface through identity-based politics. Berena has been involved in grassroots political organization for almost a decade. She is currently based in Cologne, Germany, and is a member of Interventionistische Linke – an extra-parliamentary, emancipatory left-organization.  She was most recently involved with Tatort Porz, a campaign aimed at securing the conviction of a right-wing politician who attempted to murder youth for racist reasons in Cologne, Germany – in a scenario not unlike that of the Treyvon Martin murder in the United States. She is mostly involved in anti-racist struggles and generally concerns herself with strategies of identity politics and grappling with the tension of universality and difference. Over the course of the episode, Daniel and Berena reflect on the tensions produced when politics begin and end with identity, rather than the destinations we'd like to reach from different starting points. While acknowledging the importance of having safe spaces within the ecology of the left, Berena emphasizes that spaces of struggle are those spaces where discomfort is produced by the differences we encounter and struggle with, towards common horizons of emancipation. Drawing from personal experiences and encounters, she cautions that too much of an emphasis on self-distinction can lead to self-referential navel gazing, rather than the cross-movement development of power we desperately need.  It is this underscoring of contingency that Daniel appreciates throughout the discussion. For him – and those of us at Spadework – it is critical to understand that the ways in which discourses (in this case, those about and around identity) connected to practices are always contingent and politically negotiated.That is to say, what practices are generated through discourses of identity in Berkeley, California might be very different from those connections in Barrio Logan, San Diego or Neukölln, Berlin. In the same way that the practices articulated to Marxism looked different from context to context in, say the 1960s, so too must post-Marxist discourses like those around identity.  Such an understanding of the contingent relation between discourse and practice allow the two to agree that the politics developed out of discourses of identity are not immune to authoritarian, moralistic, or dogmatic practices. And it is such connections that make power impossible to build.

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) welcomes Niccolo Milanese, Director of European Alternatives, a poet and a philosopher based in Paris, who together with Lorenzo Marsili co-authored "Citizens of Nowhere: How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself". They talk about the recent parliamentary election in France and its consequences for the future of Europe, as well as about the Ukrainian and Moldovan application for the EU candidacy. Find out more about the guest: www.imagineeurope.eu/niccolo-milanese/ This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of it.

Over the last 10-20 years we have seen the rise and rise of populist and nationalist movements in democracies across the world. This, in part, reflects a growing dissatisfaction with the state of our democratic institutions. Many people just don't believe that democracy delivers for them.My guest for this episode is Professor Alberto Alemanno. To combat the ever-increasing attraction of illiberal political movements, Alberto believes we need to work towards creating a more even playing field between companies and citizens in our civil society. If we could do that, so the argument goes, we would have a healthier polity and more effective democratic institutions.A specific step toward these goals would be to expect private firms to make public all of their political activity – adding a ‘P' for politics – to their existing ESG reporting requirements. As part of this, firms would need to report their support and membership of trade associations and the policies those associations work for and against. Like holding firms responsible for the ESG of companies in their supply chains, this type of political reporting would hold firms responsible for the interventions in the political system made on their behalf by others. Alberto argues that this would stop companies from playing a double game of supporting one policy publicly while simultaneously working to stop that policy through their support of other organisations and associations. The idea is a fascinating one, and Albertos knowledge and passion of the issues it raises shine through in our conversation.Alberto is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law & Policy at HEC Paris. He is also the founder of the civic startup, The Good Lobby, whose mission is to equalize access to power by strengthening the advocacy capacity of civil society and making corporate political influence more accountable and sustainable. He sits on the board of several civil society organizations, such as Friends of Europe, European Alternatives, VoxEurop, Access Info Europe, as well as the citizens' campaigning movement We Move, which operates transnationally. I hope you enjoy the episode!CitationsAlemanno, A. (2017) Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society. Icon Books.Heimans, J. & Timms, H. (2019) New Power: Why Outsiders are Winning, Institutions are Failing, and How the Rest of Us Can Keep Up in the Age of Mass Participation. Picador.The Good Lobby (www.thegoodlobby.eu)Mancur Olson (1974) The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Harvard University Press (revised edition). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Europa, tra aiuti e vaccini. Non si parla d'altro nel vecchio continente: dei soldi del Recovery Plan e dei vaccini che non arrivano a sufficienza per combattere la pandemia. Fondamentale il programma Next Generation EU, ma non basta. “Se dal progetto di aiuti e prestiti – dice Lorenzo Marsili ospite di Memos - scaturirà quell'unione fiscale, politica ed economica capace di rimettere in moto un sistema finanziario ed economico che non funziona più, allora avremo compiuto un primo passo, uno spartiacque, in un cammino verso una federazione economica e politica europea”. Lorenzo Marsili è saggista, filosofo, direttore di European Alternatives (ong internazionale). A Memos parliamo di alcune tracce del presente che possono servire a capire quale sarà il futuro dell'Europa. I rischi di una transizione ecologica che ignori l'ambiente; il pericolo che la transizione digitale non sia un processo lineare, ma che possa portare ad una torsione della democrazia (attraverso i monopoli delle Big Tech, il capitalismo della sorveglianza). E poi il futuro della vigilanza sui conti pubblici dei paesi dell'Unione. E' finita definitivamente l'austerità, torneranno e in che forma i patti di stabilità e i fiscal compact? Infine, la prova dei vaccini per questa Europa malata di Covid-19. Un mezzo fallimento. Com'è stato possibile? La Commissione di Bruxelles si rivela più adatta a capire i codici del finanzcapitalismo che non della salute pubblica e dei vaccini? Memos ne ha parlato con Laura Iacovone, economista dell'università Statale di Milano, esperta di industria farmaceutica.

Europa, tra aiuti e vaccini. Non si parla d’altro nel vecchio continente: dei soldi del Recovery Plan e dei vaccini che non arrivano a sufficienza per combattere la pandemia. Fondamentale il programma Next Generation EU, ma non basta. “Se dal progetto di aiuti e prestiti – dice Lorenzo Marsili ospite di Memos - scaturirà quell’unione fiscale, politica ed economica capace di rimettere in moto un sistema finanziario ed economico che non funziona più, allora avremo compiuto un primo passo, uno spartiacque, in un cammino verso una federazione economica e politica europea”. Lorenzo Marsili è saggista, filosofo, direttore di European Alternatives (ong internazionale). A Memos parliamo di alcune tracce del presente che possono servire a capire quale sarà il futuro dell’Europa. I rischi di una transizione ecologica che ignori l’ambiente; il pericolo che la transizione digitale non sia un processo lineare, ma che possa portare ad una torsione della democrazia (attraverso i monopoli delle Big Tech, il capitalismo della sorveglianza). E poi il futuro della vigilanza sui conti pubblici dei paesi dell’Unione. E’ finita definitivamente l’austerità, torneranno e in che forma i patti di stabilità e i fiscal compact? Infine, la prova dei vaccini per questa Europa malata di Covid-19. Un mezzo fallimento. Com’è stato possibile? La Commissione di Bruxelles si rivela più adatta a capire i codici del finanzcapitalismo che non della salute pubblica e dei vaccini? Memos ne ha parlato con Laura Iacovone, economista dell’università Statale di Milano, esperta di industria farmaceutica.

La Corte costituzionale tedesca ha messo una In una sentenza storica e ha chiesto alla BCE di giustificare il suo programma di quantitative easing. Il "Discorso alla nazione europea", un'iniziativa di European Alternatives. Il 9 maggio, la festa de...

The rise of the far right across Europe has given new life to the anti-feminist agenda. How do we stop the roll back and go on the offensive for a new agenda for a feminist Europe? On this podcast, hosts Zoe Williams and Luke Cooper are joined by a panel of guests in Berlin to discuss the state of women's rights in Europe and the need for new and intersectional feminist vision. Saboura Naqshband is an academic, activist and co-founder of the Berlin Muslim Feminists Collective, Daphne Büllesbach is a pan-European activist and the vice-president of European Alternatives Berlin, and Prune Antoine is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Sisters of Europe. The podcast was recorded at a live audience event in Berlin organised in collaboration with European Alternatives in Berlin and supported by the European Cultural Foundation as part of its Democracy Needs Imagination programme.

Diese Folge von Wer jetzt? entstand im Rahmen einer Kooperation des Europäischen Forum Alpbach mit Demokratie21. Die Aufzeichnung fand während den Politischen Gesprächen im Sommer 2018 statt. Das Thema des diesjährigen Forums lautet „Freiheit und Sicherheit“. Dabei geht es nicht nur um aktuelle Entwicklungen, sondern auch um deren Ursachen, Perspektiven und neue Orientierungen. Das Programm finden Sie in den kommenden Tagen online, ab dem 20. März 2019 können Sie Tickets erwerben. Daphne Büllesbach ist Executive Director der Organisation „European Alternatives“, die sich mit Veränderung auf transnationaler Ebene in Europa beschäftigt: Mit Fragen zu Demokratie, Gleichstellung, Kultur und was nach dem Nationalstaat kommen kann. Sie glaubt, dass große Themen nur mehr auf europäischer Ebene gelöst werden können, und auch kleinere davon profitieren würden. Ein Gespräch über Flüchtlingspolitik, Steuerflucht und welche Institution der EU Büllesbach gerne abschaffen würde. Hier lesen Sie drei Stichpunkte. Eine europäische Öffentlichkeit? Büllesbach greift den Gedanken einer echten europäischen Öffentlichkeit auf, die es ihrer Meinung nach noch nicht gibt. „Das liegt einerseits an der Sprachbarriere, andererseits auch am Willen“.  Vergleicht man das Budget der beiden deutschen Rundfunkanstalten ARD und ZDF, in der Höhe von rund neun Milliarden Euro, mit den Mitteln, die der EU zur Verfügung stehen, kann es nicht daran liegen, meint sie. „Schon eine Milliarde könnte wahnsinnig viel bewegen, um zumindest einen Sender oder ein großes Programm zu schaffen, dass in alle europäischen Haushalte gesendet wird“. So teilt sich die Aufmerksamkeit auf 28 nationale und parallele Öffentlichkeiten, die sich auch im selben Land nochmal aufteilen. Die Möglichkeiten für eine echte gemeinsame europäische Öffentlichkeit dürfe nicht an den unterschiedlichen Sprachen scheitern, meint sie. Solidarität per Gesetz Büllesbach kritisiert auch die mangelnde Bereitschaft von Nationalstaaten, sich auf gemeinsame Lösungen einzulassen und auch im eigenen Land Initiativen dafür zu unterdrücken. „Ein Beispiel war die sogenannte Flüchtlingskrise. Viele Gemeinden und Städte in Ungarn und Polen wollten Flüchtlinge aufnehmen, aber wenn sich der Staat weigert, passiert das nicht. Man kann Solidarität offensichtlich nicht verordnen“. Das gelte umso mehr nach den gegenseitigen Schuldzuweisungen und Ausweichen bezüglich Flüchtlingsquoten. „Ungarn will nicht, weil Polen nicht will, und so weiter. Keine Institution kann diese Staaten dafür zur Rechenschaft ziehen“. Aufbau einer transnationalen Organisation Wie baut sich eine Organisation und Netzwerk wie die European Alternatives auf? "Es gibt ein Büro in Rom, Paris, Berlin und viele mehr, aber unsere Arbeit ist nicht an Orte gebunden". Viel Arbeit kann nur durch das ehrenamtliches Engagement von Menschen geschehen, die sich so weit einbauen, dass daraus mehr entsteht. "Mit so vielen Mitgliedern und Ländern ist viel autonom und self-managed. Wir können ja gar nicht mit allen immer in Kontakt bleiben und interagieren". (C) Wer jetzt? ist ein Podcast von Demokratie21, produziert und moderiert von Philipp Weritz, Redaktion Milo Tesselaar und Nina Schnider.

This is a teaser clip of a members-only episode. If you want access to the full episode, subscribe to Cable Street for as little as $5 per month.Borders define our world, for good and bad. Far-right authoritarian leaders and political parties increasingly use borders as a weapon to further their own quest for power. Unfortunately, progressive responses have verged on outright adoption of that frame, delineating groups as friend and enemy based on where they were born. Results show adopting these ideas tend to help far-right parties.My guest Daphne Büllesbach from European Alternatives believes the transnationalism is the answer to far-right authoritarianism. We explore what this means in the context of Europe, whether it’s possible and what transnationalism looks like in practice. We also discuss the upcoming European elections and the chances for a progressive alternative. Show NotesEuropean AlternativeThe Nation State Must be Overcome - read the article

“Uguaglianza sostenibile” è il titolo di un programma di governo scritto da una trentina di studiosi ed esperti europei su richiesta del gruppo socialista al parlamento di Strasburgo (https://tinyurl.com/uguaglianza-sostenibile). E' un documento di un centinaio di pagine presentato la settimana scorsa a Bruxelles. Nel documento si parla di “svolta radicale nelle politiche nazionali ed europee”, di “alternativa al neoliberismo e alla dinamica autoritaria”, si elencano cinque aree di azione: giustizia sociale, progresso socio-ecologico, ridefinire il capitalismo, potere alle persone, innescare il cambiamento. Uno degli estensori del documento, l'economista Fabrizio Barca, vede quel testo come una bozza di programma non solo dei partiti riformisti (come il Pd in Italia), ma anche dei soggetti a sinistra del Pd, un “documento terzo” su cui “trovare un'intersezione fra diversi percorsi”. Memos ne ha parlato oggi con Enrico Giovannini, uno degli autori del documento, economista ed ex ministro del lavoro nel governo Letta; e con Lorenzo Marsili, giornalista, saggista, direttore di European Alternatives, fondatore insieme a Janis Varoufakis di DiEM25 (Movimento per la Democrazia in Europa). Marsili segnala l'esistenza di un vero e proprio “ecosistema di documenti programmatici”: European New Deal Diem25 (https://tinyurl.com/EuropeanNewDeal), Green New Deal di Sanders e Ocasio-Cortez negli Usa (https://tinyurl.com/GreenNewDeal-Sanders-Ocasio); Universal Basic Services UCL London (https://tinyurl.com/UBS-UCL-London)

“Uguaglianza sostenibile” è il titolo di un programma di governo scritto da una trentina di studiosi ed esperti europei su richiesta del gruppo socialista al parlamento di Strasburgo (https://tinyurl.com/uguaglianza-sostenibile). E’ un documento di un centinaio di pagine presentato la settimana scorsa a Bruxelles. Nel documento si parla di “svolta radicale nelle politiche nazionali ed europee”, di “alternativa al neoliberismo e alla dinamica autoritaria”, si elencano cinque aree di azione: giustizia sociale, progresso socio-ecologico, ridefinire il capitalismo, potere alle persone, innescare il cambiamento. Uno degli estensori del documento, l’economista Fabrizio Barca, vede quel testo come una bozza di programma non solo dei partiti riformisti (come il Pd in Italia), ma anche dei soggetti a sinistra del Pd, un “documento terzo” su cui “trovare un’intersezione fra diversi percorsi”. Memos ne ha parlato oggi con Enrico Giovannini, uno degli autori del documento, economista ed ex ministro del lavoro nel governo Letta; e con Lorenzo Marsili, giornalista, saggista, direttore di European Alternatives, fondatore insieme a Janis Varoufakis di DiEM25 (Movimento per la Democrazia in Europa). Marsili segnala l’esistenza di un vero e proprio “ecosistema di documenti programmatici”: European New Deal Diem25 (https://tinyurl.com/EuropeanNewDeal), Green New Deal di Sanders e Ocasio-Cortez negli Usa (https://tinyurl.com/GreenNewDeal-Sanders-Ocasio); Universal Basic Services UCL London (https://tinyurl.com/UBS-UCL-London)

“Uguaglianza sostenibile” è il titolo di un programma di governo scritto da una trentina di studiosi ed esperti europei su richiesta del gruppo socialista al parlamento di Strasburgo (https://tinyurl.com/uguaglianza-sostenibile). E’ un documento di un centinaio di pagine presentato la settimana scorsa a Bruxelles. Nel documento si parla di “svolta radicale nelle politiche nazionali ed europee”, di “alternativa al neoliberismo e alla dinamica autoritaria”, si elencano cinque aree di azione: giustizia sociale, progresso socio-ecologico, ridefinire il capitalismo, potere alle persone, innescare il cambiamento. Uno degli estensori del documento, l’economista Fabrizio Barca, vede quel testo come una bozza di programma non solo dei partiti riformisti (come il Pd in Italia), ma anche dei soggetti a sinistra del Pd, un “documento terzo” su cui “trovare un’intersezione fra diversi percorsi”. Memos ne ha parlato oggi con Enrico Giovannini, uno degli autori del documento, economista ed ex ministro del lavoro nel governo Letta; e con Lorenzo Marsili, giornalista, saggista, direttore di European Alternatives, fondatore insieme a Janis Varoufakis di DiEM25 (Movimento per la Democrazia in Europa). Marsili segnala l’esistenza di un vero e proprio “ecosistema di documenti programmatici”: European New Deal Diem25 (https://tinyurl.com/EuropeanNewDeal), Green New Deal di Sanders e Ocasio-Cortez negli Usa (https://tinyurl.com/GreenNewDeal-Sanders-Ocasio); Universal Basic Services UCL London (https://tinyurl.com/UBS-UCL-London)

What if the “small steps” approach so dear to Jean Monnet had all started with the creation of a media? Like language or currency, the media can be an effective tool in the construction of collective awareness and identity. Yet European editorial projects are still few and far between. Yet given that initiatives like VoxEurop, Political Critique, Are We Europe and Café Babel do exist, is it not time to encourage the birth and growth of other platforms? How can the development of these new transnational media contribute to the invention of a new European citizenship? - Matthieu Amaré, Cafébabel, FR Marta Cillero, European Alternatives, ES Quentin Ariès, Contexte, BE Catherine André, VoxEurop, FR

Niccolo Milanese ... This week we're joined by Niccolo, one of two co-authors of an excellent new book, 'Citizens of Nowhere; How Europe can be saved from itself'. As the name suggests, the book challenges Theresa May's infamous phrase – that if you are a citizen of the world, then you're a citizen of nowhere – and offers a radical new agenda for political change. The book isn't just a new political vision but is also in part a history of the authors' own, decade-long attempt to catalyse social change with the establishment of European Alternatives, a transeuropean NGO. We ask Niccolo for his thoughts on how the rise of the far right can be resisted, the place of Eastern Europe in the European story, and the history of 'Europe from below'.