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Published in: HomeEurozone take-overPoland's premier is ready to lead Poland into a new servitude to corporate greed
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Denmark, the imperfect Europhile
Is an EU based on accommodating differences and allowing exemptions suited to bring Europe out of the crisis? A good...
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Published in: HomeShould Brussels resist Hungary's ‘Putinization’? Or do EU member states have a ‘democratic over-ride’?
The Copenhagen criteria for EU accession set strict democratic pre-requisites for any country wishing to join the...
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Published in: HomeAnother road for Europe: a draft appeal
This draft appeal is launched by [email protected], Sbilanciamoci, il Manifesto and Lavoro e Libertà, who organised and...
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Published in: HomeGay rights in Europe - another front of variable geometryLesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans-gender (LGBT) unions are treated very differently within the member states of the...
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Published in: HomeNationalism casts a shadow over European democracy
It is nation states that have emasculated European institutions. What is often branded as the ‘national interest’ is...
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Published in: HomeThe five follies of David Cameron
Perhaps now, as the eurozone and the entire EU struggles to survive, there will have to be a serious debate in the...
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Published in: HomeItaly's lost sovereignty – when did it happen?
During the past few weeks, Mr. Monti has named many reforms that need to be made, not including a new electoral law....
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Published in: HomeWhy I wish I could condemn Cameron's decision whole-heartedly but can't
It is now that we really need a genuine democratic European movement with strong civil society roots. But it doesn't...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain on the edge of Europe
"I can never recall Britain being so friendless in the EU", writes the Director of the Centre for European Reform...
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Published in: HomeEurope: from crisis to opportunity
The origin of the eurozone crisis lies in the overreach of the Maastricht treaty of 1992. A new process is needed to...
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Published in: HomeEurope: after the endgame
The eurozone crisis reveals the exhaustion of the post-1945 model of Europe-building. This poses a historic...
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Published in: HomeTowards a Red-Green People’s Europe
The president of PASOK and of the Socialist International addressed the German Green party in an audience including...
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Published in: HomeA Greek tragedy: the making of the Greek and Euro-Atlantic ruling classes
Who is George Papandreou? The author challenges what he sees as the defence over recent years on this website of...
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Published in: HomeEuro end-game or end of crisis? Eurozone heads into critical summit
There will be huge sighs of relief if the potential political and economic catastrophe of a break-up of the euro is...
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Published in: openEconomyThis crisis is no excuse for technocratic government
In the author's prescient May 2010 article there is the central observation that we are seeing a fundamental...
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Published in: HomeHope from below: composing the commons in Iceland
Never again can the world be told by the custodians of the old that the people cannot be relied upon to write the...
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Published in: HomeWhy can’t we have that? ‘Global civil disobedience’ and the European living laboratory
In a response to Daniele Archibugi and Patti Tamara Lenard, the author argues that unauthorized immigrants should be...
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Published in: HomeEurope's choice: Monnet vs de Gaulle
The pressure of financial crisis is changing the European Union's internal power-balance. The rival visions of two...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy put to the test
Just as the mechanisms that made democracy function in city states were not adequate for governing nation states,...