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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionAt the next election, Italians have two options: Right or further Right?
The quick ascent of the Brothers of Italy party has surprised analysts and raised questions about fascism
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChoosing between access and sex workers’ rights in Portugal
Anti-trafficking NGOs in Portugal have entered into a neoliberal bargain where political neutrality on sex workers’...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisWhy at-risk Afghans have a right of admission to EU member states
The protection of Afghans should not be limited to those directly employed by European governments
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Published in: 50.50: NewsHow the far Right tried to exploit Spain’s anti-austerity 15-M protests
WikiLeaks files also show ultra-conservative campaigners copying tactics from Greenpeace and Oxfam, and falsely...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhen saying No isn’t enough: an aggrandizing identification
A monocultural National Us possesses superior power, force or force of number, and a sense of impunity. This is an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionBlowing a raspberry at France’s democracy
Abstention is the cancer currently eating into French democracy and society. President Emmanuel Macron is keen to...
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Published in: Home: NewsPolish media and opposition fight to save press freedom from state control
Government’s controversial bill ‘would wipe out one of last institutions to hold authorities accountable’ and could...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisThe truth is most Afghans don’t head west to Europe
Many in the West fear a potential influx of Afghan refugees – but they misunderstand the survival strategies of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionBikinis or shorts – not always an obvious choice
What Norwegian papers dubbed ‘the panty crisis’ finds an odd counterpart in a beach volleyball attire row, where...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?'No one really knows': practical knowledge and uses of ignorance
Scientists in some ways similar to the public intellectuals of decades past, pursue the translation of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Dreams coming true
'This dream occupies the whole second chapter of Freud's 1899 seminal, Interpretation of Dreams. He uses it as a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Oblivion adds tragedy to death
'A wine jug, big-bellied and narrow-necked... is the oldest representation of such a tragedy that I have seen'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisWhy Ireland needs to look beyond a binary referendum on unification
As the short, disastrous history of majority voting shows, we can and should find more nuanced options for decision-making
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionSpectacle of terror
When one asks: What is terrorism then?.... Images of terror are ubiquitous yet no term is more contested and more...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisA feminist foreign policy for Spain
Spain advocates for building a feminist foreign policy and is taking the first steps to do so. But where do you begin?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisSpain’s VOX party and the threat of ‘international environmental populism’
In the coming years, we should expect global warming to become one of the major threats from which a ‘European...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWith LGBTQ+ rights in the spotlight, Hungary prepares for a political showdown
Upcoming referendum will be a test of opposition to Viktor Orbán’s ‘illiberal democracy’
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Published in: HomeSplinters: August 2021 – sallies into the here & now
This month: Spectacle of Terror 1...Oblivion adds tragedy to death...Dreams coming true... "No one really knows":...
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Published in: 50.50: Review‘The only Black person in the room’: The truth about racism in Italy
This is a translated excerpt from Nadeesha Uyangoda’s memoir about what life is like for a person of colour in Italy...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionAttacks on academic freedom escalate in France and Denmark
The social sciences have been under attack from right-wing populists for years. What’s worrying is that mainstream...