openDemocracy is partnering with European Alternatives to explore the Transeuropa festival. Here, two of the organisers explain why they chose Belgrade as the location for this year's festival.
Three questions for Peter Sunde, who is speaking about online privacy and digital freedom at the Transeuropa festival 2015.
The EU's isolation policy towards Hamas has not worked. Instead it may be reinforcing dangerous dynamics in the region. Is it now time for an EU rethink?
In the end, Ayotzinapa "was the State", inasmuch as it was, and continues to be, the result of impunity and systematic abusive practices within the various levels of government in Mexico. Español. Português.
An agreement on short term objectives for climate change must absolutely be found in order to make the Paris agreement a truly sustainable, effective and human one.
The electoral victory of Tsipras over his political opponents signifies the triumph of energetic populism over docile liberalism.
It is precisely at dealing with a world like today's, of instability and fast-moving events – not open to easy or direct control – that the EU is, and always has been, very bad.
If I could send a message to European leaders it would be this. Understand why people risk everything to reach Europe. Show them the same humanity being shown by ordinary citizens.
Skyrocketing abstention, social demobilization and an impending wave of harsh austerity measures call for critical reflection after Syriza’s victory.
It seems normal to grant priority to victims of wars which are destroying Iraq and Syria, because we all share a large part of the responsibilities in the present conflicts.
We will begin to understand that in order for Europe to be able to carry out the task which has suddenly fallen to it, a new Europe is required, with a different political form.
Last May, Italy’s parliament tightened criminal sanctions for accounting fraud. A few weeks later the Italian supreme court ruled that the new law had in fact achieved the opposite effect.
