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Published in: openSecurityPress freedom: the dark cloud gathering over EuropeToday is a day to celebrate free media expression—except for those journalists, even in Europe, denied the capacity to do so.
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Published in: openSecuritySecuritisation not the response to deaths at seaThe European Union has responded to the humanitarian crisis presented by refugee deaths in the Mediterranean—but...
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Published in: openSecurityCrisis in the Mediterranean: Europe must change courseAs leaders of European Union member states prepare to meet to discuss the Mediterranean refugee crisis, the Council...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat the EU must do now to halt this tragedy on its shoresThere are answers to the Mediterranean migrant-deaths crisis. They just require the European Union, whose foreign...
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Published in: 50.50Lampedusa: Never againThe terrible migrant deaths off the Italian island have evoked horror across the continent. In a small camp in...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope's war on migrantsThe unending series of mass drownings in the Mediterranean of migrants and refugees are not unfortunate tragedies:...
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Published in: openSecurityMass surveillance: wrong in practice as well as principleThe paradox of mass state surveillance, as the answer to non-state violence, is that it can overlook the...
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Published in: openSecurityMigrants in the Mediterranean: mourning deaths, not saving livesFor as long as the humanitarian impulse to rescue the desperate and the destitute is trumped by Europe’s focus on...
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Published in: openSecurityIs there reason to hope for Minsk II?The last Minsk agreement on eastern Ukraine failed to bring peace. The latest looks similar—but the context has changed.
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Published in: openSecurityUkraine ceasefire announced at Minsk summit—what next?The ceasefire agreement in Minsk over Ukraine was better than no outcome at all. But only a little better.
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Published in: openSecurityScapegoats for an insecure EuropeThe crisis facing Europe could be perceived as a product of conflicting class interests in what Keynes called the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe new cold war Russia (again) won't winThe last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, burst the 25th-anniversary balloon of the symbolic end of the cold war by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bulgaria in limboA messy election in a troubling time leaves Bulgarians still waiting for light.
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Published in: HomeTurkey's Armenian opening: towards 2015The approaching centenary of the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman empire is a moment for Turkey's civil society...
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Published in: openSecurityTrapped by borders, a global flotsam and jetsamThey arrive nameless and unnumbered by land or sea but ever-more unregulated migrants across the globe are falling...
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Published in: 50.50Live from Lampedusa: The Freedom of MovementNicholas De Genova introduces The Charter of Lampedusa.
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Published in: openSecurityThe Euro-sceptic Trojan horse: challenging the EU from withinEuro-sceptic political parties exploited public insecurity to make gains in the elections to the European Parliament...
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Published in: openSecurityNot polished enough! Have Swedes had enough of the far right?In an increasingly unequal Sweden, the far right has been able to capitalise on growing insecurity for its...
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Published in: HomeEuropean elections and campaign finance: show us the money
What role does money play in European elections, and how is it regulated? Such questions need to be addressed to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A rationale for Europe: start with the south
The European Union's interlocking crises have had an especially severe impact on its southern states, from Spain and...
