Victor Angelo

  Democracy and Power in the Age of Uncertainty: A Roundtable Across Time This is the report of an imaginary roundtable discussion about d...

My opinion column of this week, published on 9 Feb in Diário de Notícias, Lisbon, in Portuguese language. This is an Artificial Intelligence...

France has a new government. President Emmanuel Macron asked Edouard Philippe, who had been Prime Minister for the last three years, to r...

This a time of great political polarisation, in many of the Western democracies. Matters are decided based on party positions, not on tru...

When political bullying fails, the fellows try blackmail. The French call it “chantage”. That’s what some Brexit hardliners have been sug...

Populist leaders will do anything to keep power. They get to power through lies, manipulation of facts, verbal violence, intrigue and app...

He knows about theatrics and smoke screens. He is also an expert on mirrors and emotional words, grandiloquence. That works in politics. ...

The extreme right is like a hodgepodge of ideas. That explains part of its current strength.   I have looked at their political progr...

We do not pay too much attention to politics in Estonia. The received wisdom, in Brussels and in the Western part of the EU, is that the ...

It’s a grave mistake to refer to autocrats as “illiberal leaders”. They are undemocratic political monsters that managed to get to positi...

To recall one’s ambassador accredited to another State is a major move. A decision that is taken at the highest level of authority. It sh...

The French Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) have now demonstrated every Saturday since mid-November. Yesterday it was their 12 th Saturday o...

As we move into this new year, a very challenging one in many fronts, let's not forget that fear is the currency of the populist lead...

Recent data shows that one in 10 European workers lives in a household that is statistically classified as poor. This is undoubtedly a hi...

We should not confuse simplification with populism and dogmatism. Simplification is a leadership task that helps to decode and elucidate ...

It´s worrisome to see the Turkish society being pushed towards more political radicalisation and deeper national divisions. It´s also a ma...

The journalist from Macao asked me who in the EU is taking the lead in the fight against populist and xenophobic ideas. It was a genuine q...

Elections will take place in a number of EU countries this year. And interestingly enough, we will see those countries actively borrowing ...

Christmas 2016 is about to happen. It is therefore time to close this shop for a few days and enjoy the family. But before closing for...

It would be inexcusable to remain silent and not denouncing the populist proposals that might create serious political damage. Indeed, I s...