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Europe

The EU is Creating a Lost Generation

The European efforts to avert a lost generation will fail. Unless we really improve Europe’s competitiveness and invest in the future, the young will become fed up with the EU. If you’re young in Europe, you will have a dif...
by Joop Hazenberg
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Asia
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FOOD for Thought for Indian Politics

I am proud to be in Indian especially when the country has such a wonderful Government and compassionate political leadership. Did you just have a frown on your face upon reading this? I’m sure you think I am sadly mistaken....
by Nishant
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Human Rights
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Enough About The Driving Ban – Saudi Women Have Bigger Problems

Last October, Saudi women made headlines once again by challenging their country’s ban on female drivers and getting behind the wheel. The October 26th driving campaign saw over a dozen women take to the streets, undeterred b...
by Miriam Puttick
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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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Africa

Rejecting the decline in Liberia’s unemployment reports

For more than a decade, this part of Western Africa was engulfed with one chaotic event after another. The country descended into a dungeon that no man would ever dare dream of entering. It was all in the name of freedom for th...
by Joe Wilson
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Balkans
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Bosnian Protesters Demand Bread, Social Justice And Freedom Of Speech

When the citizens of Bosnia’s second biggest city, Tuzla, went out to protest on February 4, 2014, few expected to witness the country-wide riots that followed. Whether the latest unrest in Bosnia-Herzegovina can be qualifi...
by Rayna St
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Belgium

Over-Capacity, or what does the closing of Ford Genk teach us about Europe?

On Wednesday October 24th, the employees of the Ford factory in Genk, Belgium were given the news that the factory will be closed, and all employees will have to find another job by 2014. This obviously directly affects the 4.2...
by Gilles Pittoors
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Economy
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Rehabilitation Allowance: Not For people, Just For Statistics

Recent changes in legislation, affecting the still relatively new Rehabilitation Allowance in Hungary may affect hundreds of thousands of people across the country, yet they do not seem to successfully benefit the people whom...
by Tímea Fazekas
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Economy
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Will The Upcoming Elections Save Greece?

The road to stability, for Greece, has been difficult. After Greece joined the European Union in 1981, it experienced an unprecedented period of stability. For the next thirty years, Greece had secure political systems in place...
by Sylvia Bouloutas
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