Posts Tagged ‘EU’
 

 
International Political Forum

Under The radar: Ukrainian Protests And The Need To Prevent Soviet Mistakes

What’s going on in Ukraine matters to democracy around the world. In Ukraine, we are seeing the population protesting against their government’s steps that are reminiscent of Ukraine’s Soviet past. The protests are for di...
by Esma Mneina
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50Days4Gaza: Ali Abunimah speaks about resistence movements being labelled as “terrorism”

8 July 2015 marked the one year anniversary of the 2014 Gaza war. With there being very slow progress on reconstuction in the Gaza Strip since the war ended, over 100,000 Palestinians remain homeless and not one house has been ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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International Political Forum

Germany’s Foreign Policy: Ever cautious?

The 17th of December saw the installation of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition cabinet following the longest entre-en scene of government in German history. Despite the prolonged negotiations, foreign poli...
by Leonard Schuette
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Nationalism is Misappropriated by Separatism

That Scotland constitutes a nation in its own right is not up for dispute; the Scottish nation is a political fact. There can be no doubt that Scotland, as separate from the rest of Britain, thinks of itself as sharing a common...
by Benjamin Brindley
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International Political Forum

Erasmus+: Towards The Cultural Union Of Europe

On November 19th, the European Parliament voted in favour of Erasmus+—the new EU funding programme for education, training, work and sport abroad proposed by the European Commission. From January 2014, more than 4 million peo...
by Mauro Anastasio
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The Growth Of UKIP Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Traditional Parties.

The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) is taking the country by storm. Some polls claim that the British Eurosceptics will beat all three traditional political parties in the upcoming EU election. Even if this prediction ...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Revolution, Civil War Or Proxy Conflict? In Reality, The Ukrainian Crisis All Boils Down To Money

Cast your mind to any place in modern day Europe, east of the Czech Republic, and your imagination will inevitably be playing three degrees of separation with one major reference point in terms of culture, economics, history a...
by Damien Sharkov
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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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Subsidiarity, or the Conflict between Scale and Community in the EU

A while ago, I read an article saying that we should reconsider the division of tasks in the EU. It was a good article. The author essentially proposed to apply the principle of subsidiarity, which says that each policy area sh...
by Gilles Pittoors
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