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For over five hundred days, the Brussels region — home to the EU institutions — has been without a government. Beyond its local context, the crisis reflects the broader contradictions of the 2020s: European remilitarization, industrial decline, rightward electoral shifts, and downward budgetary pressure towards urban enclaves from EU institutions. In this lecture held by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's Brussels Office, prominent theorist and historian Anton Jäger explores politics in Europe and left-wing strategies for this impasse, beyond the "hyperpolitical"’ reflexes in vogue in recent years.