Populism in the News
Headlines across the media
October 2020
14 October: Abortion Without Borders: a bold, feminist reply to Poland’s draconian laws (Open Democracy)
September 2020
28 September: Poland and Hungary to create institute for assessing rule of law in EU countries (Notes from Poland)
25 September: Why loneliness fuels populism (Financial Times)
24 September: How the far right took over the mainstream (Open Democracy)
22 September: The EU Should Not Turn a Blind Eye to Hungary’s Media Capture (German Marshall Fund of the United States)
17 September: Michael Sandel: ‘The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit’ (Guardian)
14 September: Populism in Germany declines sharply, says Bertelsmann study (Deutsche Welle)
12 September: We need to reclaim populism from the right. It has a long, proud leftwing history (Guardian)
08 September: Poland’s civil society awakening – when stones turn political (Open Democracy)
06 September: Student Blockade Protests Viktor Orban’s Reach at a Top Arts University (The New York Times)
04 September: How coronavirus has brought together conspiracy theorists and the far right (Guardian)
01 September: Poland is moving further towards autocracy (Open Democracy)
August 2020
31 August: The right’s culture war is no longer a sideshow to our politics – it is our politics (Guardian)
28 August: How democracies die: the case of Hungary (Prospect Magazine)
23 August: From Washington to Minsk, democracy is under siege … and losing the battle (Guardian)
17 August: Summer of discontent in eastern Europe (EU Observer)
13 August: Mass Arrest of LGBT People Marks Turning Point for Poland (Balkan Insight)
09 August: The Facts Just Aren’t Getting Through (The Atlantic)
06 August: Bulgarian PM says he is ready to resign but wants government to stay (Euroactiv)
06 August: Rainbow flag protesters charged by Polish police (EU Observer)
July 2020
30 July 2020: Populism Is Not A Bug But A Feature Of Globalization (Noema)
30 July 2020: How to laugh away the far-right: lessons from Germany (Open Democracy)
24 July 2020: Who paved the way for the populists? (UnHerd)
23 July 2020: The path from Covid-19 to a new social contract (Financial Times)
16 July 2020: Bild, Merkel and the culture wars: the inside story of Germany’s biggest tabloid (Guardian)
14 July 2020: Poland: trouble ahead (Open Democracy)
13 July 2020: Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party clings on to the presidency (The Economist)
09 July 2020: Polish state media puts squeeze on presidential challenger (Financial Times)
07 July 2020: Elections in Croatia: Conservatives retain the parliamentary majority (Open Democracy)
05 July 2020: Knife-edge Polish presidential race could slow the march of populism (Guardian)
June 2020
25 June 2020: What future for the EU after COVID-19? (Open Democracy)
25 June 2020: For a bitter taste of Polish populism, just watch the evening news (Guardian)
25 June 2020: As he bids for re-election, Poland’s president still struggles to carve out an identity (Notes from Poland)
17 June 2020: Poland’s anti-LGBT campaign explained: 10 questions and answers (Notes from Poland)
15 June 2020: How to dismantle a democracy: the case of Bulgaria (Open Democracy)
04 June 2020: How Viktor Orbán turned the Treaty of Trianon into a dangerous political weapon (New Statesman)
03 June 2020: Give them liberty, or give them Covid-19 (New Statesman)
May 2020
20 May 2020: A power struggle within Poland’s Supreme Court as it seeks to pick new chief justice (Notes from Poland)
14 May 2020: How coronavirus is reshaping Europe in dangerous ways (Guardian)
13 May 2020: Democracy on Pause in Pandemic Poland (Foreign Affairs)
07 May 2020: Neoliberalism is over – welcome to the era of neo-illiberalism (Open Democracy)
April 2020
27 April 2020: Europe’s far right knows how to waste a good crisis (Politico)
18 April 2020: Beware a new wave of populism, born out of coronavirus-induced economic inequity (The Guardian)
14 April 2020: How Greece is beating coronavirus despite a decade of debt (The Guardian)
12 April 2020: Coronavirus is now contaminating Europe’s democracy (The Guardian)
03 April 2020: Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed (The Atlantic)
March 2020
31 March 2020: Populists Love the Pandemic (Project Syndicate)
31 March 2020: The Shocking “Coronavirus Coup” in Hungary Was a Wake-Up Call
18 March 2020: Coronavirus’ next victim: Populism (Politico)
14 March 2020: Populism is Meaningless (The Atlantic)
February 2020
14 February 2020: The trouble with anti-populism: why the champtions of civility keep losing (The Guardian)
November 2019
04 November 2019: How economic populism may determine the winner of this election (The Independent)
October 2019
24 October 2019: How liberalism became ‘the god that failed’ in eastern Europe (The Guardian)
August 2019
29 August 2019: Austrian elections: support for the far right collapses (The Guardian)
23 August 2019: Can too much bad TV lead to populism? (The Guardian)
July 2019
02 July 2019: In Liberal Estonia, Right-Wing Populists Are Making Their Mark (Freedom House)
June 2019
17 June 2019: Why Isn’t Trump a Real Populist? (New York Times)
08 June 2019: Ein demokratisches Frühlingslüftchen (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
May 2019
28 May 2019: The far right may not have cleaned up, but its influence now dominates Europe (The Guardian)
22 May 2019: Want to save Europe? Learn from Poland. Three lessons from our fight against illiberalism (New York Times)
14 May 2019: Orban’s brand of populism blinds him to reality (The Times)
08 May 2019: Broad coalitions key to fighting populism: Polish opposition (Reuters)
March 2019
06 March 2019: Revealed: the rise and rise of populist rhetoric (The Guardian)