The European Union's interlocking crises have had an especially severe impact on its southern states, from Spain and Portugal to Greece and Italy. A perspective from there can also be the springboard to Europe's recovery, say Francesc Badia i Dalmases & Oleguer Sarsanedas.
The EU approach exploits what is effectively a loophole in international law. If a person never reaches the EU state’s territory, the legal obligations under refugee and human rights law are never triggered. Shouldn’t we be talking about this in the run-up to the European elections?
How did Switzerland, a country attached to the importance of personal privacy, respond after the story about the Snowden leaks broke? How did the government - and the public - react?
