This week’s coverage on openDemocracy was dominated by perhaps the most significant European elections since they began in 1979. Etienne Balibar asks whether European elections are useless, drawing responses from Teresa Pullano and Anya Topolski, while Ulrike Guerot and Robert Menasse wonder wheth
This week on openDemocracy, Can Europe Make It? launches its series Joining the dots on state surveillance in Europe, with five national case-studies and the introduction to a major EU study, as well as debate on this secret oversight, from vanguard countries caught red-handed, like the UK, to the
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An unofficial referendum on Veneto breaking away from Italy gains widespread support, while Spain struggles to appease Catalonia. The European elections will influence the Scottish referendum, as will the promise of a new direction in foreign policy. Meanwhile OurKingdom has launched an appeal to
We have tributes to two anniversaries this week: one to an event which surely saved lives, the other to an event which cost more than a thousand. Mandela's iconic speech from the dock, “it is a cause for which I am prepared to die” perhaps saved his life, and contributed, eventually, to the transf
The Ukrainian conflict is under this week's spotlight. Oleksander Andreyev and Andrew Wilson ask whether the political turmoil is new, while Polina Sinovets looks at language as a barrier. Anton Shekhovtsov takes on extremism in south-eastern Ukraine.Paul Lewis examines the European context, as Yo
As the continent prepares to elect a new European Parliament and the UK considers its future within the European Union, a glaring question remains: What is the meaning of Europe?
This week openDemocracy marked International Workers' Day by joining the queue outside the jobcentre. The global effects of crisis on the labour market are clear, calling for a more secure 'equality economy'. The European Progressive Economists Network asks if another road for Europe is possible,
openGlobalRights (oGR) launches its latest debate on religion and human rights. In the face of those who argue that religion is a human rights liability, citing persecution in India and Pakistan, or the rise of Buddhist nationalism in Burma, others urge human rights movements to view religion as a
A press conference hosted at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva on 10 March 2014 went almost unnoticed by the media. After all, many events were crowding the international agenda
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