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One asylum seeker in Belgium: Part Three

Published on: 22 February 2011

Written by: Nikolaj Nielsen All articles by Nikolaj Nielsen

In March 2010, over 400 Macedonian asylum seekers arrived in Belgium. Many have since returned to Macedonia. Most...
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Belgium’s asylum seeker fiasco

Published on: 17 February 2011

Written by: Nikolaj Nielsen All articles by Nikolaj Nielsen

People in Brussels are led to believe that there is a huge influx of asylum-seekers. Yes and no. The truth is much...
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The humanities and the sciences depend on each other, so cutting humanities funding hurts the "hard" subjects too

Published on: 17 December 2010

Written by: Darian Meacham All articles by Darian Meacham

The UK educational reforms, with their utilitarian emphasis on Science and Engineering, demonstrate no understanding...
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Along the language frontier

Published on: 27 October 2010

Written by: Philip Ebels All articles by Philip Ebels

As Belgium is on the brink of collapse, some talk of a second Yugoslavia, partly in jest, partly not. It has been...
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Time to Call it a Day: Sometimes it is right for a country to recognise that its job is done

Published on: 20 June 2010

Written by: Tom Nairn All articles by Tom Nairn

We revisit an article from 2007 meditating on the export of the possible break up of Belgium back across the channel...

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