Current Affairs - The New Federalist

What will happen in the 2021 German Federal Elections?

On September 26 the German public will go to the polls to vote for a new chancellor after almost 16 years of Angela Merkel. The post-Merkel era promises to be a key period, with the incoming leadership set to define the post-pandemic recovery and key issues such as the environment and foreign (...)

Wednesday 2 June 2021

Could the UK’s vaccine success make students want to study there?

A new [report->https://www.qs.com/portfolio-items/international-student-survey-2021-uk-edition by university rankings provider QS has found that international students are now more likely to want to study at UK universities as a result of the successes of the vaccine rollout. This comes as a (...)

Wednesday 26 May 2021

Homeless Migrants may lose right to remain in the UK under new rules

A harmful set of new rules that aim to make rough sleeping grounds for refusal or cancellation of a migrant’s permission to remain in the UK have recently been announced by the UK Home Office. However, Priti Patel, Home Secretary, has recently furthered these changes by reviving a (...)

Wednesday 19 May 2021

THE ECONOMY AND COVID-19: ONE HURDLE TOO MANY FOR SPAIN?

Covid-19 continues to bring its share of uncertainties and no country has been spared. Every day has its own share of contradictions, and maybe even hopes, with a future vaccine scheduled for 2021. While the virus may one day slow down and be less deadly, the economic and social crises will (...)

Wednesday 19 May 2021

Brexit’s bruises on the British Left burn bluer than ever

The UK’s local election results show the British left has not recovered from Brexit

Friday 7 May 2021

Migrant Children in Care Face an Immigration System Rigged Against Them

The track record of the UK government on ensuring migrants are awarded access to all the rights they deserve and are entitled to is not one to hold in high regard. It is now being expected that, as a result of Brexit, another group of migrants are going to be robbed of their chance at life in (...)

Wednesday 28 April 2021

From Renzi to Salvini: The Furious waltz of the Matteos

Matteo Renzi has often been presented as a kind of modern Machiavelli of the Italian political scene. The comparison is quite easy to make when you’re talking about a former mayor of Florence. But if we consider the caricature of Machiavellianism —which is simplistic because the Florentine (...)

Wednesday 21 April 2021

The prospect of a new general election puts Kosovo’s military past under the spotlight

After numerous political scandals, early elections are bringing new hope to the nation. The diaspora is already booking flights as Kosovans sense a change in the wind after new elections were set for the 14th of February 2021. The government toppled in the midst of a global health crisis In (...)

Wednesday 14 April 2021

Taxes: your subscription to democracy

Tax evasion is a fiendishly tricky crime to prove as it lacks the two most valuable players in any crime: a clear victim and a clear offender. It leaves no dead body lying beside a bloody knife, no stolen car with fingerprints on the handle, and no broken windows at a jewellery store. It (...)

Sunday 28 March 2021

The Polish State Adrift

Anna Drettakis describes how the Polish State has gone from a democratic state to a state where the independence of the judicial and the media sectors as well as fundamental rights are endangered.

Friday 26 March 2021

Right to Protest: UK’s New Policing Bill is a Threat to Democracy

Isabelle Walker looks at how the UK’s new policing bill threatens people’s right to protest, and why this is important in the context of democracy.

Tuesday 23 March 2021

Domestic Abuse Bill lacks protection for migrant women

Aaron Gates-Lincoln looks at the Domestic Abuse Bill and how it falls short, leaving migrant women with insecure immigration status and No Recourse to Public Funds at significant risk.

Sunday 21 March 2021