Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Apr 10
"Today, however, #populists often lose #elections narrowly and have every reason to contest the outcome: they see themselves as representing half the population—whom they often frame as “the real people”—in highly #polarized #countries." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/l...

A New Type of Democratic Trans...
A New Type of Democratic Transition

Jan-Werner Mueller considers how the Hungarian opposition, if it wins the upcoming election, could rebuild after illiberal rule.

Project Syndicate
David SentinellaMar 16
What a grubby, self-serving, and deliberately divisive propagandist Barnaby Joyce is. His anti-#ClimateAction agenda ultimately serves short-term gain for a select few, at the expense of the most-of-us, future generations, and planetary #ecology.
Barnaby Joyce reminds of me of a used car salesman. He reassures the gullable, but ultimately sells lemons. Like all deceptive #populists he would have you believe that accelerating fossil-fuel use will deliver #EnergySecurity. It won't, #ClimateDenial aside. Joyce is a dangerous fool, cast in the same mould as that other orange-tinged dangerous fool. Seems, orange, means, as in nature - beware - toxic. #AusPol
Edit: No offence to any redheaded people or peoples intended.
David SentinellaMar 15
#Labor should contest the #FarrerByElection, and it would be gutless not to do so. It shouldn't only be about winning, and anything that draws away from the #ClimateDenying #populists is a demonstration of stance. The #Greens running in #Farrer gives voters a real choice. Anyone who knows how preferential voting works should have no objection. #ABCNews24
Italian News by RSSMar 14

L'Huffington Post - News, inchieste e approfondimenti HuffPost: Vannacci, Popolari, banche tedesche. I nemici (e gli amici) dell'euro digitale

Il wallet della Bce promette pagamenti a costo inferiore per commercianti e artigiani, grazie a un’infrastruttura pubblica europea e a funzioni come waterfall/reverse waterfall che aggirano il limite di detenzione senza bloccare le transazioni. Nel Parlamento Ue si confrontano due visioni: euro digitale guidato dalla Bce oppure rete “Bancomat” privata (EPI/Wero); costi, governance e autonomia strategica sono al centro del voto di maggio, con un orizzonte di avvio non prima del 2029

Vannacci, Populists, German banks. The enemies (and friends) of the digital euro.

The ECB’s wallet promises lower-cost payments for merchants and artisans, thanks to a public European infrastructure and functions like waterfall/reverse waterfall that bypass the holding limit without blocking transactions. In the European Parliament, two visions are being debated: a digital euro led by the ECB or a private “ATM” network (EPI/Wero); costs, governance, and strategic autonomy are at the center of the May vote, with a launch horizon not before 2029.

#Vannacci #Populists #German #European #EPI/Wero

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/economia/2026/03/14/news/euro_digitale_meno_commissioni_piu_sovranita-21401578/

Vannacci, Popolari, banche tedesche. I nemici (e gli amici) dell'euro digitale

Il wallet della Bce promette pagamenti a costo inferiore per commercianti e artigiani, grazie a un’infrastruttura pubblica europea e a funzioni come wate…

HuffPost Italia
Populist.in đź’Ą PopulismMar 13
»Will #Europe’s #populists dump #Trump? Blind support is a #voteloser.« https://unherd.com/2026/03/will-european-populists-dump-trump/?Populist.in #FactCrisis #Populism #Populist #Movement
Will Europe’s populists dump Trump?

UnHerd
David SentinellaMar 11
#Labor should contest the #FarrerByElection, and it would be gutless not to do so. It shouldn't only be about winning and anything that draws away from the #ClimateDenying #populists is a demonstration of stance. The #Greens running #Farrer gives voters a real choice. Anyone who knows how preferential voting works should have no objection. #ABCNews24
Matv1Feb 28

#geertwilders found to have chickened out of TV election debates using made-up threats to his life.

#populists want to talk all day, but only when they can spew their fact-free fantasies uninterrupted.
Internal #pvv messaging now shows how scared #wilders was of debates on equal terms with other parties.

Winning the election in 2024, his government collapsed in total chaos within a year.

#thenetherlands learnt its lesson regarding #populism the hard way. I urge other countries to take note.

Kyiv Independent Daily HeadlinesJan 23

Friday, January 23, 2026

Exclusive: American, European microchips found in Russia's latest missile-like drone -- Fire burns through oil depot in Russian city of Penza following Ukrainian drone strike -- Around 25% of Kyiv's residential buildings remain without heating as freezing weather persists -- Why the West must support the mental health of Ukraine's defenders ... and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/friday-january-23-2026/

Show threadNoBorgJan 10
"Poland's right-wing populist leader, President Karol Nawrocki, meanwhile, has not yet made his position clear. To date, he has said nothing about the US attack on Venezuela. ()
Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski took a sarcastic tone on X: "Another day goes by without our nationalists defending Venezuela’s national sovereignty. Does it only apply to the European Union, which poses no threat?""
#Poland #EU #Populists #Democracy
https://www.dw.com/en/central-europes-populists-left-reeling-by-venezuela-attack/a-75450701
Central Europe's populists left reeling by Venezuela attack

Right-wing Trump supporters in Central and Southeastern Europe have operated in a legal gray area for years. After the US attack in Venezuela, there's a growing awareness that Trump could pose a threat to them too.

Deutsche Welle
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDNov 17, 2025
Often misread/dismissed as right-wing #populists, the #YellowVest/#GiletJaune protests began on #ThisDayInHistory in 2018. They have opposed #fascists in their events. GJ are opposed to #neoliberalism in #France, and the rising #CostOfLiving ever associated with #LateCapitalism.