Alex Sakalis was a former editor of openDemocracy's Can Europe Make It? project. He now works as a freelance writer and teacher. He tweets @alexsakalis.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: ReviewBiography of an island: multifaceted SicilyJamie Mackay’s ‘The Invention of Sicily’ is a wild and breezy ride through one of the most unique and alluring...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Balkans and the meaning of nowhereIn To the Lake, Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova takes an evocative journey through Balkan borderlands, enchanting...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?DiEM25: an example of internal democracy in actionFor an inspiring example of internal democracy in action, look no further than DiEM25’s briefing paper on the French...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Is Europe colonising itself? A review of "Europe’s Forbidden Colony"Srecko Horvat's documentary is more than a peripatetic jaunt through Europe, but a film that encourages us to think...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Something's changing - the launch of DiEM25 in LondonConway Hall gets us going.
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Published in: HomeIntroducing this week's theme: Strasbourg's World Forum for Democracy 2016 asks how education can renew democracyopenDemocracy is partnering with the World Forum for Democracy 2016 to draw inspiration from a wide range of...