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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEurope’s flooding shows why the green transition must be driven by people-power
It’s time to stop viewing people as victims of environmental breakdown, and start viewing them as an essential part...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: ReviewBiography of an island: multifaceted Sicily
Jamie 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?: OpinionScandinavia has a ‘migrant-friendly’ reputation. But is that changing?
Ten years on from Norway’s Utøya massacre, a tragedy fuelled by a hatred of multiculturalism, borders are tightening...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisIn Poland, public funding is given to those threatening liberal democracy
Right-wing, conservative and nationalist magazines were the primary beneficiaries of funds recently allocated by the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisEurope’s elderly care problem
Europe’s care homes have seldom been out of the news during the COVID crisis. Why is this sector so understaffed and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: InterviewThe European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic Income
Philosopher and political economist Philippe Van Parijs looks at whether the cultural sector could benefit from a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhen saying ‘No’ isn’t enough
'What I want to examine is why... progressives can’t use the same tactic of trashing the opposition'
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionPrisoners of the system
"During the run up to the French regional and departmental votes across the last week of June, all electors were...
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionWhat links organised crime with the radical right?
There are serious gaps in our knowledge about how violent extremists get their hands on weapons and money
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionGame on for the Premier League in the Balkans?
How Telekom Srbija’s push to buy TV rights to major European tournaments could undermine media freedom in the region
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionMediterranean carcerality and acts of escape
In recent years, migrants seeking refuge in Europe have faced capture and containment in the Mediterranean – the...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsSpanish government questioned about openDemocracy ‘conversion therapy’ findings
Following revelations that African clinics run by aid-funded groups offer anti-gay ‘therapy,’ a centre-Right party...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Put him to bed: social fabric and the spirit of laws
'According to Hancock, “Every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal …”... he was right. A mere hug,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Who is it that I am?
'Identity is what we’ve got, and at the same time it is what we haven’t got.'
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOn the Twelfth, Northern Ireland returns to its past. But its future looks different
Though bonfires, burning effigies and cries of ‘No surrender’ suggest the 17th century, Northern Ireland is...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe time for a four-day week has arrived
A new experiment from Iceland confirms what many of us have long suspected: reducing working hours improves...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhy the rise of Giorgia Meloni is anything but business as usual for Italy
The far-Right’s latest figurehead threatens to send Italy down a dangerous authoritarian path we’ve seen elsewhere in Europe
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘If you report abuse, you lose your job’: Spain’s labourers fight back
Fed up with exploitation and sexual assault, women farm workers in Spain are campaigning to make their collective voice heard
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionHow it became normal to be Islamophobic in Belgium
The joint rise of anti-Muslim sentiment and the far Right in Flanders undermines minorities’ freedom of speech
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWorld Cup glory? Norway’s football fans are more interested in human rights
The extraordinary defiance from 500 clubs against FIFA over Qatar 2022 is already inspiring other countries