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Published in: HomeEurope’s guns, debt and corruption
This second of two essays on military spending and the EU crisis, explores the role of the European arms trade,...
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Published in: HomeDiscouraging developments in the German news media market
The German print media is going through a rough phase, with many newspapers closing and journalists laid off as a...
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Published in: HomeEuropean Right to Freedom Act
We should recognize that the national context and legitimacy is here to stay for some time. We might overcome it one...
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Published in: HomeEuropeans’ love-hate relationship with interdependence
Europeans both love and hate globalisation. They benefit from mobility across cosmopolitan Europe and there can be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enough with the European leaps of faith!
The future of Europe rests neither in a self-defeating global market, nor in a re-nationalized, German EU. What we...
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Published in: HomeAssez de ces 'sauts de foi' européens
L'avenir de l'Europe ne repose pas sur un marché global auto-destructif, ni sur une Europe allemande rénationalisée....
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Published in: HomeThe infallibility of David? On anti-semitism and criticising Israeli foreign policy
Criticising Israeli foreign policy does not constitute anti-semitism. As simple as this statement appears, its...
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Published in: Home'My Turkey': Berlin, immigration and the amateur football scene
Berlin's Turkish football clubs tell the tale of a local struggle for multiculturalism and integration, far away...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Stephane Hessel: the ultimate European
How could someone be more European than Hessel by origin, shared culture and values - his cross-border,...
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Published in: HomeResisting the other of the ‘war on terror’: lessons from Japanese internment camps?
Though intended to be temporary in nature, Agamben argues that the ‘state of exception’ has become a permanent...
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Published in: HomeBritain's European catharsis
Like Greece, Spain and Germany before, Britain now faces a cathartic moment when she needs to decide what price it...
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Published in: HomeTime horizons of transformation: lessons from the German unification for the eurozone
The harmonisation of national economies inside the eurozone is essentially a clash of time horizons – the future...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France is a universal nation: Mélenchon speaks out
In London last month to speak on a progressive alternative to the austerity policies which are being implemented...
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Published in: HomeWhy the EU deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
The European Union's Nobel Peace Prize, which it will officially receive today, was a reminder that the EU is much...
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Published in: HomeCovert and hidden populism in unified Germany
Why is it that unlike other European countries, Germany has not had a long-lasting populist party. Though some...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Kanak Attak: discursive acts of citizenship in Germany
Kanak Attak in Germany is an anti-racist collective of people with mixed ethnic backgrounds who aim to turn the...
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Published in: HomeOrientalism and the modernisation of sexuality
In the last two decades gendered and sexual ‘others’ have been ‘included’ in citizenship, as new sexual...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The power of Merkiavelli: Angela Merkel’s hesitation in the Euro-crisis
Hesitation as a means of coercion – that is Merkiavelli’s method. Only one fate is worse than being overwhelmed by...
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Published in: HomeGermany, Europe and the presidential election
The majority of Germans view the United States, the “land of unlimited opportunities”, with a lot of sympathy. But...
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Published in: HomeWhy Poland is the new France for Germany
Has Poland replaced France as Germany's most trusted European partner?