Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel | How can Democrats win back working-class voters who have switched to the right? The obvious solution is to become more populist. However, we have seen social democrats try this in Europe and it didn’t work.
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel | When Greece resisted demands for spending cuts from its creditors last year, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appealed to the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, for talks with the other 27 heads of government. Theresa May clearly hasn’t learned Tsipras’ lesson.
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel | Now that Donald Trump’s Rasputin, Steve Bannon, has declared open season on Republicans, will the party finally see its president for the saboteur he is?
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel | Chris Bickerton makes a strong argument in The New York Times: Emmanuel Macron is on track to become yet another failed French president. He argues Macron’s “entire political project” has been built around his personality.
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel | In his annual State of the Union European Commission speech, president Jean-Claude Juncker’s proposals for closer EU integration is a throwback to the false dichotomy of more or less Europe. Furthermore, they contradict the “multispeed Europe” that has been endorsed by France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel | Germans are more centrist and optimistic than most Europeans. The French and the Spanish have yet to feel the economic recovery and are more inclined to vote for parties on the far left and the far right. The Italians are even more pessimistic, yet they remain wary of extremes.
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel | Accusing Catalan nationalists of attempting to profit from a terrorist attack is not going to change minds. A little empathy, by contrast, and maybe a little bit of compromise, would go a long way.
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel |A transition deal might be good for Britain, but there are many reasons to doubt the EU would agree to it.
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel | Top military officers are exerting increasing influence in Donald Trump’s administration and causing some to wonder if it’s the start of an American junta. But nobody really expects John Kelly, James Mattis and H.R. McMaster to attempt a putsch.
Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel |French president Emmanuel Macron has won support from the leaders of Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for reform of the EU’s posted workers regime. The French president argues the rules must change to make Europeans feel the EU works for them.