As we count down to 2026, read our most popular posts from the last twelve months.
1. Will the IMF survive Donald Trump’s presidency?
Robert H. Wade examines what American disengagement and growing resentment among emerging market and developing countries mean for the future of the IMF.
2. Brian Klaas: “The United States is now a competitive authoritarian system”
Is the United States still a democracy? In an interview with EUROPP’s editor Stuart Brown, Brian Klaas discusses Donald Trump’s impact on American and global democracy.
3. The UK’s mandatory digital ID scheme is repeating the EU’s mistakes
The announcement of a new mandatory digital ID scheme in the UK generated a backlash from citizens in September. Ronnie Das writes the UK is ignoring the lessons the EU learned from its own digital identity system, the EU Digital Identity Wallet.
4. Spain under Pedro Sánchez – from democratic regeneration to degeneration
Fernando Casal Bértoa and José Javier Olivas Osuna argue that international indicators point to declining democratic standards in Spain since Pedro Sánchez came to power in 2018.
5. The Meloni method after three years in power
Giorgia Meloni has struck a balance between nationalism and pragmatism during her three years as Italian prime minister. Yet as Marina Cino Pagliarello writes, the same traits that have made her effective could soon become liabilities.
Note: This article gives the views of the author, not the position of LSE European Politics or the London School of Economics.
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