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Europe

A Union in Peril

An election season clears. The excitement of change with President Obama’s reelection settles. China’s once-a-decade power transition remains stable following the Bo Xilai affair. Attention returns to the old continent, as ...
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Spain’s Southern Border Faces Yet Another Scandal

This much we know: at around 6 in the morning on Thursday, on the 6th of February, a group of around 250 people headed towards the Spanish-Moroccan border in Ceuta. Members of the Guardia Civil, the police force in control of S...
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Eurasia

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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Special Features

Greece-ing the wheels

This is the week Greece finds out whether it will receive a new tranche of EU funds to help it pay its creditors. Or what that last week? Or maybe the week before. In fact, as a colleague pointed out to me earlier today; the of...
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Economy

Yoga and the Quest for a European Future

On April 18th 1951, six European nations signed the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community in order to resolve the thorny German Question. By putting the European coal and steel production under a si...
by Gilles Pittoors
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Europe

Spanish Youth in Exile: “We’re Not Leaving, They’re Kicking Us Out!”

Youth unemployment in Spain, one of the tragic consequences of the crisis that this country is living through, stands at 55.6%. Last year, the European Union called for urgent action to combat this alarming number. After 15 mon...
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Economy

Grexit: Has the Greek debt crisis truly been averted?

As the latest deal between Greece and its international creditors edges ever nearer to completion following marathon 16 hour talks in Brussels, many parties involved in negotiations have expressed scepticism over the long-term ...
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Human Rights

Without a home, without a solution: Short-term fixes won’t solve the world’s refugee crises

Recently, a destabilising and disturbing trend has been proliferating throughout all corners of the globe. This year has seen record numbers of refugees fleeing economic hardship, political prosecution, and vicious attacks in c...
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Europe

Europe Without Brussels: New Intergovernmentalism and Europe’s Integration Paradox

What has been happening to the European integration process in the last decade or so can only be described as an integration paradox. Never before has there been so much discussion and debate at the European level as during the...
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