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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionEurope has entered its own era of McCarthyism – against IslamAs guilty until proven innocent increasingly becomes authorities’ approach to Muslims, basic rights such as freedom...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionIslamophobic raids hid Austrian government failure to prevent a terror attackWhile the Austrian government busied itself with its Islamophobic agenda, its intelligence services missed vital...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightA Muslim and a fascist walk into a bar in ViennaA Muslim woman meets a radical-rightwing group in Austria to discover that systemic racism is far more dangerous.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National stereotypes in times of COVID-19: the ‘frugal four’ and the ‘irresponsible South’When EU leaders discuss the coronavirus Recovery Fund at the upcoming meeting of the European Council on Friday,...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightHow COVID-19 deflated the Austrian populist radical rightCOVID-19 has fundamentally altered the logic of Austrian politics as refugees and the question of Islam in Austrian...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Women refugee photographers who changed how post-war Britain saw itselfThese images served to signal that there was also a cultural dimension to the hopes for post-war renewal.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Shared histories: Austria’s interest in Italy is still very much alive"Call it a Europe-building exercise imposed from above, if you must. For me, cynicism had no place on screen last night.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Austria's smoking gun: Strache, “Ibiza-Gate”, and “Saint” SebastianEven such huge scandals which lead to the dissolution of a government, resignation of a Vice-Chancellor and the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Back with a vengeance? One year with the radical right in government in AustriaThe FPÖ is successfully tilling the field for a radical right turn of Austria, and it seems unlikely that the party...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe stories fascist Europe tells itself, and how to correct themWhat can the UK learn from those fighting the far right across Europe? Take history seriously
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Free spaces for thought and de-accelerationThis is a revised version of the acceptance speech of the leading Austrian discourse analysis scholar, for a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Austrian passports for South Tyroleans are fine – or almost soThere is one thing calculated to diffuse Europe's nationalisms: the feeling a person can have – or develop over time...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?South Tyrol – a distorting mirror for Vienna, Rome and liberal LondonThree capitals – the financial and military heart, the bridge with eastern Europe, and the ancient caput mundi on...
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Published in: HomeTurkey’s presidential referendum and the (not so) curious case of the Turkish diaspora in Europe
Maybe it is time Europe looked at itself in the mirror and started discussing why more and more people, including...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"We don’t have a refugee crisis. We have a housing crisis."
With national and European governments in gridlock, the cities themselves have decided to bypass the state level...
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Published in: HomeEscaping from asylum to act as citizens: political mobilization of refugees in EuropeThese forms of protest (except for the Sans Papiers movement in France) were for many years largely ignored by a...
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Published in: HomeProtest against the deportation of asylum seekersFrom the perspective of deportees, a certain amount of luck has been needed to be in the right place at the right...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Austria almost elected a fascist presidentAlexander van der Bellen’s narrow win was a pyrrhic victory. Interviewed shortly before the election, writer Robert...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Rome, Brexit, Trump and Greens – so many forms of establishment meltdown: revolution in the making?Everywhere, people are increasingly hostile towards whoever wants them to vote just for the sake of stability and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Will young people decide the Austrian presidential election?Will young people in Austria vote for the youthful far-right candidate Norbert Hofer or his septuagenarian rival,...
