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Europe

Portugal’s Lost Generation

Portugal recently reached a staggering 15% unemployment. The very night this information became public, the Portuguese Minister for the Economy, Álvaro Santos Pereira, went on national television to justify how in one year exc...
by Miguel Costa Matos
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Europe

In Defence Of The Union

It is the responsibility of any academic or author to clearly lay out one’s biases, be they the products of conscious deliberation, or a consequence of one’s birth. I am a Scot, born in Aberdeen, but have lived in England f...
by Stuart Shevlin
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Ecuador

What Assange did for Climate Change

With all eyes on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and the UK government’s looming (possible) extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, activists await the next move. Using the Internet, Julian Assange lit the match th...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Europe

The Game of Europe’s Shortcomings

Let’s get straight to the point using someone else’s words: “We have construction mistakes of Economic and Monetary Union and it is time to correct them. It is clear that the core of the current debate has a name: further...
by Gilles Pittoors
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Belarus

Proportional Response: Sweden and Belarus teddy bear row

You might have missed this story, but there is currently a bit of a diplomatic battle between Sweden and Belarus, and it’s all about some teddy bears…Can you guess what happened from the picture below? Read the full...
by Sam Kirk
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Europe

Vomiting Values, or What Is European?

The European Union (EU) has expanded quickly over the last decade, with its latest enlargement welcoming Bulgaria and Romania in 2007. The EU’s enlargement process however, is not as straightforward as it would appear nor doe...
by Gilles Pittoors
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Europe

France’s Drift to the Left: A Sustainable Success?

The recent elections in France were undoubtedly a great success for The Socialist Party. Not only did their presidential candidate Francois Hollande beat the then conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, but the party also won a...
by Emily Annear
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Europe

THE LAST DAYS OF MARIO – Mario Monti and Italy in Europe: a winning strategy?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button” float=”left”] European leaders managed to end the last yet ‘crucial’...
by Mattia Braida
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Europe

European tug of war, or where are we going with Europe?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” float=”left”] “Europe can’t close its eyes to the danger of our time”, Ko...
by Gilles Pittoors
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