Mounting pressure on EU to embrace change

Because of increasing inequality, Europeans are voting for radical alternatives to mainstream parties, but integration is not to blame. Policy errors are the culprit, says Jean Pisani-Ferry

IN Europe, 2015 began with the far-left Syriza party’s election victory in Greece. It ended with another three elections that attested to increasing political polarisation.

In Portugal, the Socialist Party allied with its former archenemy, the communists. In Poland, the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party won sufficient support to govern on its own.