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The French electoral campaign has been widely read across Europe as a fight between the candidate of austerity and the candidate of growth, as much as these interpretational categories have been used to describe the frictions between Hollande and Merkel, exacerbated during the latest European Council summit. But this debate is misplaced, gives rise to [...]
Freedom, solidarity and some notion of equality have become the core values of many, maybe most, political parties across the political spectrum. The political left, however, is characterised by its firm conviction that freedom and equality do not stand against each other; rather, they are mutually dependant. There can be no free society without a [...]
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