Applications now open for founding meeting of TRANSEUROPA Network – a network of activists from throughout Europe working together for the emergence of a new and genuinely transnational European politics, culture and society.

Recent events in France, Italy, Denmark and elsewhere have shown that discrimination against Roma is growing. But the Roma are a vanguard experiencing the prejudices any European citizen might come to face in another country – we must act to defend them and our common European citizenship.

We have seen growing attempts at some form of European economic governance. But it is civil liberties and fundamental rights that should be sanctioned in all of Europe.

Eyafjallajökull is the name of the Icelandic volcano used as the slogan of the meeting of all Nichi Vendola’s factories, held in Bari from 16 to 18 July, which included debates on employment, the economic crisis, the Mafia phenomenon, migration, new media and the future course of Italian and European politics.

Presenting a European campaign to push for greater protection of media pluralism at EU-level, responding to growing threats to the independence and liberty of information in Europe.

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the second Iraqi War, the word “freedom” arguably meant theft, neocolonization, military invasion, torture and uprooting. But democracy should be taken back and made to serve a politics of the alternative.

Either Europe will be reinvented as a radically new political space, or it will perish, argues Etienne Balibar in these theses

The plight of migrants, the ‘globalisation’ of the human condition, poses again the question of solidarity and demands a response of planetary ambition and responsibility.