“Economic migrant” was never a pejorative term among economists. If economic migration and asylum-seeking are kept properly distinct, the case for freedom of movement within the European Union is unanswerable.
To entrust an increasingly sceptical public with more and more veto powers at the very moment when existing veto powers threaten the EU project - does not seem right.
Hardly any new ideas, similar economic plans and a surprising detachment on the part of the voters seem to characterize a campaign that will end up with the election of a new president who ought to be able to surpass Kirchnerism. Español.
Why are the leaders of Hungary and Bavaria meeting up for talks in a German monastery?
The primary problem in the EU is not German power, but the cross-border prevalence of the peculiar brand of euro-neoliberalism.
A former prime minister of Jamaica calls David Cameron out for side-stepping calls for reparations and diminishing the continuing present of slavery in his address to Jamaica's parliament.
This is an excerpt from the regular briefing for the Friends of Cyprus in the UK .
When states lack social legitimacy, a lack of trust in politicians or political parties is merely a symptom of this. Who then do we turn to?
The absence of the leading candidate for the October 25 presidential elections in Argentina at a national debate on TV highlights the persistent democratic-quality shortfall in Latin America. Español. Português.
Montenegro is witnessing the biggest protests in its history in calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Djukanovic, and activists are turning to crowdfunding to sustain their revolution.
The truth is that ‘trust me’ didn’t work and the much-vaunted expertise of the ‘third way’ politicians have contributed to the disarray we see all around us.
By getting the UNHCR and Frontex to more directly intervene in the first moments of arrival with identification and fingerprinting, the EU is attempting to retake control of movement throughout Europe.
