We are supposed to know that scapegoating is simply an ancient deluded way for societies to take back control without assuming responsibility. Yet in the EU as in the White House, scapegoating flourishes. Can we buck the trend?
Kalypso Nicolaidis is one of hundreds of European citizens becoming British every week. She has just published an exploration of Brexit through Biblical and Greek Mythology( "Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit”, London: Unbound).
Isn’t it the case that fellow Europeans not only have the right to comment on the affairs of their neighbours but that doing so is a political virtue which ought to be cultivated?
Isn’t it the case that fellow Europeans not only have the right to comment on the affairs of their neighbours but that doing so is a political virtue which ought to be cultivated?
Venice may be sinking, Istanbul spinning, Beijing rising, Rio dancing, London globalising, Paris greying, but New York who grew beautiful by mistake is aging with chaotic grace.
The European Union needs to undergo a revolution founded on “pragmatic wishful thinking” that will make it more modern, global, networked, and effective. But for “EU 2.0” to become possible, says Kalypso Nicolaïdis, there must be a new governing idea for the European project: sustainable integrati
The European Union needs to undergo a revolution founded on “pragmatic wishful thinking” that will make it more modern, global, networked, and effective. But for “EU 2.0” to become possible, says Kalypso Nicolaïdis, there must be a new governing idea for the European project: sustainable integrati
“Project Europe 2030”, a report undertaken by the Reflection Group to explore the European Union’s choices over the next two decades, was published on 9 May 2010 and presented to the European Council. In the first of a three-part series, Kalypso Nicolaïdis - one of the group’s twelve members and a
The design of the future presidency of the European Union council is likely to create confusion among European citizens. The inter-governmental conference (IGC) closing in Lisbon on 18-19 October 2007
