European integration and EU institutions
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Poland’s War Over Knives and Forks
In Poland’s presidential election last Sunday, the unprofessional national populist Karol Nawrocki won over the highly skilled former Member of the European Parliament and now Mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski. This result had nothing to do with the qualification of the candidates, and everything with crude, ‚us vs. them‘ identity politics of the rural, socially…
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Jürgen Habermas and the „Zeitenwende“
Jürgen Habermas, like my mother, turns 96 this year. This is, in itself, a remarkable achievement, especially as both, in their own ways, have remained intellectually agile. Admittedly this is where the parallels end. The philosopher and political-social theorist Jürgen Habermas is an institution in Germany and beyond. His works spanning by now several decades…
Roland Freudenstein
On ‚EU strategic autonomy‘ and all that: An irreverent appeal for Europe to grow up.
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Roland Freudenstein
Reflections on ‘Great Power Rivalry: How Can the EU & UK Survive?’ on Tim Beyer Helm’s World Wide Wednesday on 25 July 2023
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