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Published in: HomeSplinters: April – short essays on the here & nowThis month: "Genocide is Not an Essential Service!"... Family likeness... THE WEST IS WINNING: Pompeo's address......
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“After coronavirus” – Macron's promise“Bruno le Maire explained solemnly that France was a rich country… We can spend in this moment of crisis… But spend on what?”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How data-mining companies are set to gain from the Covid-19 pandemicTheir business model, challenged by numerous activists and analysts, is likely to gain further public acceptance, to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionA letter in support of Albin Kurti's acting governmentIntellectuals and academics stand in solidarity with Albin Kurti and the citizens of Kosovo in these difficult times.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enlarging the context on COVID-19: Europe and AfricaAs the dust on the first brutal phase of the pandemic settles in Europe, containment of the pandemic cannot succeed...
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Published in: Home‘The Experiment of Development’: the source of our progress has become the source of our downfallAs the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary amidst a global pandemic, interconnected challenges and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Privacy, public health and the pandemicWhat we have to guard against is the diffusion of emergency logics across time and space, not the redefinition of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionStop blaming ordinary people for the UK’s pandemic failuresBoris Johnson has presided over a public policy disaster. Now, he wants you to blame your neighbours. Don't.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?#Clapforcarers: why grassroots solidarity against Coronavirus mattersAs people see that we all depend for our safety on the state and its health system, they realise that contra...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?New dimensions of terrorism: tracking right-wing inspired lone wolvesThe significance of the American position should not be underestimated, for they are also host to many of the most...
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Published in: Global ExtremesFrance: is there such a thing as “Islamist separatism”?What does it mean when the French president Emmanuel Macron warns of "Islamist separatism"?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Three months into France’s phoney warEven with the example of China grappling with the epidemic before it, Europe managed to leapfrog into pole position...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What happens to freedom of movement during a pandemic?Restrictions are particularly problematic for those who need to move in order to find safety, but whose elementary...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?EU solidarity in the time of coronavirusMany of the region’s politicians are now beginning to wonder out loud – and often opportunistically – just what the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turning fear into opportunity: a chance for smaller statesSmaller states can make the best of a scary global situation by seeking deeper friendships.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Rediscovering the roots of public health services. Lessons from ItalyThe major cuts of recent decades have not erased the considerable achievements of Italy’s public health services.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The UK Parliament’s legal roleContesting Whitehall and Westminster visions of UK democracy clashed throughout the Brexit process, with the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Social movements in times of pandemic: another world is neededFaced with the glaring need for radical and complex transformation, social movements in times of crisis act...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Chronicle of a pandemic foretoldA number of world leaders until very recently have either kept hiding or underrating the spreading capacity of...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightFar-right vigilantism at Europe’s borders: the Greek experienceThe activities of vigilante groups should be contained before far-right groups add fuel to the fire.