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EU Accounts: Are the Eurosceptics Right?

One of the arguments most used by eurosceptics is the fact that the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has refused to sign off the European Union’s accounts for the 18th year in a row. That does sound like a pretty devastating ...

by Thomas Bignal

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Growing Islamophobia In France: Towards A Revival Of The Extreme Right?

As the French Muslim population has been steadily growing, so has violence against them. Absent from the media a few years ago, the term ‘islamophobia’ is now frequently used to describe prejudice and hatred towards Muslims...

by Clemence Douchez-Lortet

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Business As Usual

The Snowden revelations have cause us to re-examine our internet freedom and right to self-privacy. The far reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency and the rest of the Five Eyes (Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealan...

by Andrew Herweg

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Death by Omission: African migration tragedy in the Mediterranean and the European Union

VIDEO LINK: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/19/700-migrants-feared-dead-mediterranean-shipwreck-worst-yet As the voyage for seeking a better life for many migrants led them to their untimely death in the Mediterranean...

by Paridhi Singh

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The Dubious Arrests And Mistreatment Of Basque Political Activists

Early in November, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the European Democratic Lawyers (EDL), published their “Motion regarding the situation of Lawyers and Human Rights defende...

by Sanne Jehoul

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Dissolving gender stereotypes for children’s clothing

In an article for Fashion Studio Magazine, I previously discussed how fashion is starting to become cross-gender among adult clothing, looking at how the race to keep up with the trend of “unconventional beauty” was giv...

by Monica Lowry

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Read All About It

With the rise of information technology, the media has become almost impossible to escape. It is everywhere: billboards, magazine, TV, and radio. Gossip magazines have become more and more popular, usually by propagating inform...

by Camille Bigot

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Is Central African Republic The New Rwanda?

As the Crimean crisis and the missing Malaysian airline dominate headlines around the world, the sectarian violence that has been sweeping the Central African Republic for many months continues. Recent reports have confirmed th...

by Aidan Liban

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The Legacy Of Western Imperialism And Reinstating China’s Former Glory

The 21st century has seen China’s economic rise to “great-power” status, thereby allowing Western nations fearing that it intends to challenge the global balance of influence. While realist thinkers such as John J. Mears...

by Sunjana Dalal

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EU Accounts: Are the Eurosceptics Right?

Growing Islamophobia In France: Towards A Revival Of The Extreme Right?

Business As Usual

Death by Omission: African migration tragedy in the Mediterranean and the European Union

The Dubious Arrests And Mistreatment Of Basque Political Activists

Dissolving gender stereotypes for children’s clothing

Read All About It

Is Central African Republic The New Rwanda?

The Legacy Of Western Imperialism And Reinstating China’s Former Glory

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