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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionPublic order in Human Rights Square
“What mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, did add was that, as things are at the moment, France could well end up with a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France’s ‘global security’ bill
France cannot afford to lose the lead in global soft power precisely guaranteed by its reputation for being a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France: when police intimidation is in the frame
If this bill passes into law, good journalism will become harder still. But so will the chances of being a good cop.
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhat does Samuel Paty’s tragic murder teach us?
Building a strong sense of security, acceptance and respect in society is how we fight both Islamophobia and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France’s 1984
General Lizurey’s report is still not available publicly on his own ministry’s website, that of the Ministry of the Interior.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionOpen letter for critical and emancipatory thinking in research and higher education in France
This open letter in response to the 'Manifesto of One Hundred' (October 31) has been signed by over 2,000 French...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionFrance: the flea becoming the boss
The sole beneficiary is the far Right leader who helped turn laïcité from a fine democratic value into a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Academic freedom in the context of France’s new approach to 'separatism'
From now on, academic freedom will be exercised within the limits of the values of the Republic. Or not.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe Islamophobic witch-hunt of Islamo-leftists in France
This manufactured conflict is dependent upon a curious, neoconservative redefinition of laïcité and a libertarian...
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Published in: openMovements: OpinionMacron’s populism and Islam
The election strategy that forges a new populism through its conceptualization of freedom of expression and...
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Published in: Global ExtremesEurope must open up to new ideas about the secular state
With the recent fallout between France and some Muslim nations, this is a reminder to open up to alternative solutions.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Nuclear disarmament : from ‘open-ended talks’ to ratification and beyond
Now the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is due to become international law, nuclear powers need to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reason against fanaticism
As Voltaire argued two-and-a-half centuries ago, secularism implies tolerance and is, therefore, the way to prevent...
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Published in: Global ExtremesFrance: La République is at war with itself
To counter violent extremism in France, we need to go beyond the rhetoric of heroes and dehumanized enemies.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The balance sheet so far? Europe 0, Covid 200,000 and rising
Ten months into the epidemic and it is the virus and the right who are in control. The left can’t just wait in hope...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Macron and Islamism
The targeting of Muslim food as a danger to public order was actually the first of the measures outlined in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?French Muslims are now being called 'separatists'… well that’s a surprise!
To what lengths is the French government, with the complicity of the mainstream media, willing to go in reviving the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Threats to social innovation
In which the author, personally hurt, is forced to re-open the dustbin of history.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?England’s story
What have all those privateers trying to nibble into the NHS’ universality, contributed to help NHS staff in their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The spirit of the Commune
“When it is proposed to protect members of the public from those monuments… all Presidential hell breaks loose.”