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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: OpinionAttacks on academic freedom escalate in France and Denmark
The social sciences have been under attack from right-wing populists for years. What’s worrying is that mainstream...
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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: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSyrian refugees in Scandinavia fear they will be forcibly returned to Syria
Denmark has decided that parts of Syria are now safe and revoked residency permits for Syrian refugees. Will other...
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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: Can Europe Make It?Women in power: countries with female leaders suffer six times fewer Covid deaths and will recover sooner from recession
They 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?Is this the way democracy dies in Europe? A projection
Reflections on a dystopian future which might be becoming a reality, reflecting the dreams and hopes of political extremists.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reclaiming the right to life: hunger strikes and protests in Denmark’s deportation centres
This movement aims to make public the consequences of this politics of dehumanisation; politics that ‘kill slowly’...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Migration in historical perspective
On the rise of Islamophobia and rightwing parties, the ideology of nation-states and other barriers to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Repeal Denmark's blasphemy ban - a petition
Denmark’s blasphemy ban was recently revived when a man was charged for burning the Quran. Signatories argue that an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Exploring two Alternatives
openDemocracy meets up with Denmark’s fastest-growing political party, Alternativet, and The Alternative UK, who...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Getting to Denmark: how hidden money corrupts Danish politics
It is high time to wake up to the reality that Denmark is the only remaining country in the Nordics, and virtually...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Pork meatballs: Denmark’s latest bulwark against migrants
What is behind the recent wave of nationalistic "pork politics" in Denmark?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Blame games
The perpetrators of the attacks on the London Underground in 2005 were also born and raised in Britain. So much for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Giving the word: the making of a refugee newspaper
A refugee lawyer from Kobane and a Danish newspaper editor explain why one of Denmark's media platforms was handed...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesDrawing the line between free speech and online radicalisation
Two court rulings in Denmark and Norway reveal the contradictions at the heart of the European debate on free speech...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Is there an Alternative for Denmark?
The outcome of Denmark's general election on June 18 could depend heavily on the success of a radical new party...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesTo curtail mass surveillance, you have to be pragmatic: an interview with Jacob Mchangama
Strong civil mobilization fronted by the think tank Justitia prevented the Danish government from introducing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Scope-creep in Denmark
It takes vigilance to prevent the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen from exacting not only the lives of two innocent...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?I am not Charlie
The Danish cartoons were assembled to humiliate a vulnerable minority. In subsequent debates, the idea of freedom of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The UK and Denmark: growing public euroscepticism
The UK and Denmark are two of the most eurosceptic members of the EU, but can the two countries' eurosceptic...