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Bulgaria
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Europe’s Forgotten Citizens

Three years ago, there were 10,000 Roma living in Germany. Today, there are only 7,000 left. Out of the approximately 2,500 who returned to Kosovo and Serbia in accordance with the 2010 re-admission agreement between Germany an...
by Liliane Stadler
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Economy
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A New Internationalism is Needed

There is much discussion over whether or not globalisation has actually happened, and how much effect it has had on reducing the sovereignty of states. I take it to be a rather reasonable belief that a measure of globalisation ...
by Miguel Costa Matos
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Human Rights

Casting a new shade on the European migrant crisis

Migration is not a phenomenon of the 21st century. Throughout history people have moved from one nation or region to another for economic, social, political or environmental reasons. In the month of July alone, 50,000 migrants ...
by Rochelle Thompson
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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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Europe

Clearing the Smoke, Part II: Federalists and Europhiles

In the first article of this series, I explained how the lack of conceptual clarity surrounding today’s political discourse is thoroughly annoying. For that reason, these contributions aims to clear some smoke and clarify som...
by Gilles Pittoors
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Balkans
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Neither War Nor Peace

As separatists in Eastern Ukraine hoist new Donetsk Republic flags over captured government buildings, Russia masses 40,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, and the Ukrainian acting President puts his nation’s forces on com...
by Cole Pearce
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Europe
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NATO In A New Era

In the waning days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered his strategists to develop a plan for a surprise attack against USSR forces in occupied Germany. Appropriately named “Operation Unthinkable...
by Conor Sullivan
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Europe
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4 Reasons Why There Will Be No Independence Referendum in Catalonia

As an article on IPF outlined a few weeks ago, things seem to be moving in Catalonia, a region in north-eastern Spain. After almost four decades as an autonomous community, more and more people have taken to the streets to dema...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Europe

European enlargement: How far can it go?

Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State in the administrations of  both President Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford supposedly once said “if I want to call Europe, who do I call?” The consensus at the time was...
by Emily Annear
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