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Joel Sharples is a youth worker and freelance writer based in London. He is the editor of the Football Beyond Borders blog

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?
Laure Delcour
'Practical wisdom' and EU integration
Can Büyükbay
Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?
Srdja Pavlovic

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

TTIP: we were right all along
Thomas Fazi
TTIP and the right to protect personal data
Keno Franke
What we talk about when we talk about TTIP
Sam Lowe
The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP
Virginia López Calvo

Does democracy make Germany better at football?

Joel Sharples 21 August 2014

Does democratic ownership of German clubs help explain their success at football?

The realities of outsourcing: court interpreters mean miscarriages of justice

Joel Sharples 14 November 2013

Since court interpreting has been outsourced, wages have plummeted, quality of interpreting has dropped to a dangerous level, and the justice system has often ground to a halt. A foretaste of what to expect from outsourced services across the country?