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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionEurope’s flooding shows why the green transition must be driven by people-powerIt’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?: AnalysisEurope’s elderly care problemEurope’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: Global Extremes: OpinionHow it became normal to be Islamophobic in BelgiumThe 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?Women in power: countries with female leaders suffer six times fewer Covid deaths and will recover sooner from recessionThey did not underestimate the risks, focused on preventative measures and prioritized long-term social wellbeing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration tourniquet comes full circleFor every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bringing government to the people: a citizens' assembly to democratise policy-makingPeople’s demand for greater popular sovereignty must be taken seriously – talking to the Belgian MP for Agora.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The lessons of the World Cup for our victim cultureIf these rebels hadn’t somehow found the courage to strike out in bold, new and, frankly, dangerous directions, we...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?At the roots of the nationalism of the richIf we take the cases of Catalonia, Flanders and northern Italy, the formation of the nationalism of the rich...
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Published in: HomeThe lobbies of glyphosate: a danger to the health of Europeans and of their democracyThe court summons these citizens received for a few splashes of paint on the facade of this powerful lobby’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Brussels works: disorder as a political instrument?Brussels is shaken by a major corruption scandal, manifesting a perverse entanglement of politics, power and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A huge victory for Belgium's CETA opponents: Paul Magnette's speechA patched deal allows CETA to pass to the next stage. But Belgium gained important concessions. We translate the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Wallonia, CETA and the meaning of 'openness'For those who believe that open societies are worth protecting and promoting in Europe and beyond, there is a lesson...
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Published in: Home'By talking to one another, we can learn to respect one another'Anja Van den Durpel is Head of Integration Services at the City of Ghent, tasked with helping integration and...
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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: Can Europe Make It?Populism, nationalism and transnationalism
An interview with Benjamin de Cleen, Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, on nationalism vs populism...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From the sorrow to the shame of BelgiumThe legalisation of this 'newcomer’s statement' is an undeniable step on the slippery slope in the dehumanisation of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bleeding heart liberals and the war on terrorDemonisation is used by the right to prevent the left actually opposing the war on terror with more than platitudes;...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The other of the others am I: risk and alterity in the Brussels attacks
An excess of security may not only increase paranoia, but can also make the ‘otherness’ much harder. Português,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Iraq and Syria didn’t create ISIS - we didAfter the Paris attacks, ISIS became yesterday’s story, as if the terrorist movement had disappeared into far lands...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Manifesto for civil libertiesThe origins of the manifesto, its elaboration and dissemination, followed by a brief history of the struggle for...
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