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Even after Brexit deal and election, UK will face hard questions

  “Even with a deal, even with an election, these Brexit questions will still need to be answered” By Helen Parr, courtesy of UK In a Changing Europe   Brexit seems deadlocked after the House of Commons voted in favour of Boris Johnson’s withdrawal agreement, but against the timetable to push the legislation through before 31 […]

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Europe will become even more polarized in downturn

                      The European Union was supposed to speed up the process of convergence between the continent’s high- and low-income countries, but by many measures the continent has actually become more polarized along regional, economic lines – and this trend is only going to be exacerbated […]

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Mirror, Mirror: Germany’s Fragmenting Politics Foreshadows American Shift

  By Alexander Görlach, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs & TES Contributor     Voters in western democracies situate themselves differently today than just a few years ago. There is talk of an “axial shift.” The axis that for decades divided party systems into “right” and “left,” “conservative” and “liberal,” “Christian” […]