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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?The administration of orders: an analogy of madness and migration on Leros
A photo essay on a fragmented European border strategy.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionShared parenting in Greece: three cheers for the Mitsotakis cabinet
“This coming autumn, the Greek right-wing government will be introducing shared parenting. This is a major...
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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?EU solidarity in the time of coronavirus
Many of the region’s politicians are now beginning to wonder out loud – and often opportunistically – just what the...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightFar-right vigilantism at Europe’s borders: the Greek experience
The activities of vigilante groups should be contained before far-right groups add fuel to the fire.
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Published in: openMovementsVirus: all that is solid melts in the air
Is it easier to ascertain the truthfulness and quality of a society’s institutions under normal daily circumstances...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?On the edges of democracy: mobilizing health and care as a common good
In the moment of the ‘corona crisis’, autocratic tendencies are cropping up, hitting those who are the least...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean: hybrid warfare, the Balkans and the Near East
Has Turkey weaponized the refugees in a hybrid warfare against a hypocritical Europe and NATO, while Russia is the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fortress Europe as infrastructure
Fortress Europe is happy to keep on footing the bill, as long as Greece keeps the refugees out of sight and out of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Falling between the cracks: asylum and irregularity in Greece
The purpose here is not to call Greece out, but to use the country as an example to illustrate what is happening...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Balkans and the meaning of nowhere
In To the Lake, Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova takes an evocative journey through Balkan borderlands, enchanting...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Harnessing ‘the right within’ in Croatia and Greece
How ‘right-wing factions’ enable governing parties to draw support from the more socially conservative layers of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?There should be no hierarchy of rights for displaced children
“It is appalling hypocrisy for the authorities to speak of protecting children whilst denying them rights to family...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe dusk after the dawn: fall of a Greek Neo-Nazi party
What can we learn from the rise and fall of the Golden Dawn party in Greece?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration tourniquet comes full circle
For every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Samos refugees: a reluctant update on enduring cruelties
This is what I witness on this little Greek island that finds itself on the frontier of Europe. This tiny spot on...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?November 17: youth uprisings in Greece then and now
This authoritarian vision starts with education, an education promoted by the Minister of Education Niki Kerameos,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The left will be international or it won’t be at all: lesson from Greece
Today, one of the major historical roles of a progressive left is to explicate the need and pursue the end of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Greece: July 8
July 7, the date of the national elections in Greece, has come and gone. But July 8 will not bring happiness to any...