Antonio Contini

Aug 12, 2024 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Antonio Contini |Giorgia Bulli |Filipe Henriques |Ann-Cathrine Jungar

What pushes electorates to vote far-right? Many answers have been put forward to this question in the wake of the recent European elections, but a unifying factor driving extremist voting could be care. Making citizens feel more looked after should be a top priority of the EU, and that will require a massive – but feasible – effort towards ecological and human wellbeing.

Oct 19, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Cléa Fache |Hugo Chirol |Léa Legras |Antonio Contini

Caught between privatisation, successive austerity plans, the deterioration of social services, and the rise of the far right, some Italian citizens are organising to meet their own needs without state assistance. At the heart of their efforts lie the reappropriation of the commons and experiments with other ways of doing politics based on self-management, maintaining complex and ambiguous relationships with public institutions.

Aug 16, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Roderick Kefferpütz |Antonio Contini |Giorgia Bulli |Vanessa Jérome

Gendered power roles, individualism, authoritarian grip on politics – the dominant leadership model is a desperate attempt to hold together an unsustainable status quo. But political change is brewing and can erupt without warning. Here’s how Greens should prepare. Edouard Gaudot: Between Giorgia Meloni or Marine Le Pen on the one hand and Jacinda Ardern or Sanna Marin on the other, does it make sense to put a gender on power?

Jul 27, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Edouard Gaudot |Natalie Bennett |Antonio Contini |Giorgia Bulli

Whether imposed from above or the result of bottom-up movements, authoritarian tendencies are on the rise globally. Aboriginal approaches to leadership, based on shared narratives, dynamic power relations and collective land sharing, offer powerful antibodies against the cult of the strongman. Green European Journal: Could you briefly introduce yourself and your work? Tyson Yunkaporta: I belong to the Apalech clan from the far north of Queensland, Australia.

Jun 16, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Antonio Contini |Giorgia Bulli |Inge Jooris |Diego Marín

Once an opportunistic supporter of the European Green Deal, the EPP is now leading a backlash against climate politics, as its opposition to a nature restoration law most recently shows. Throughout Europe, former centre-right parties have thrown the doors of government wide open to the far right. In 2019 the Greens had a major victory.