The Polish Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman reflects on the Social Democrats’ need to reassert the protective power of the State – this time through global institutions.ial democrats need to reassert the protective power of the state – this time through global institutions.

Andreu Misse, correspondent of El Pais in Brussels, explains how the support to left parties has followed the downward trend of voter participation in European elections.

According to Majid Sattar, the EU election results reflect a “double crisis”: the growing deficit of European democratic legitimacy and the decline of national “catch-all” parties…

The recent Italian elections take the temperature of the current political dialectic in Europe. One marked by the emergence of a reactionary discourse of security, the crisis of the left, and the eradication of political struggle.