Europe’s Reckoning: Dare More Democracy, or Watch the Reactionaries Win Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Madrid, Monday 23rd March 2026 In the tapas bars of Madrid and the windswept plains of Extremadura, a quiet capitulation is underway. Spain’s Popular Party, once a stolid bastion of post-Franco conservatism, now finds itself propped up by Vox coalitions in region … Continue reading IT’S POLITICS: From Austerity to Unity: Europe’s Path Forward