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Call for civil society access to detention centers

30/09/2011 - (Photo Flickr: noborder network) This text is a first version of a call for citizen's access to detention centers, proposed to partner organisation in the campaign. The text will be circulated, reworked and finalized before ...

Stand as candidate to the board of EA!

09/09/2011 - Stand as candidate to the board of EA! European Alternatives has been in existence for a few years now and the organisation is growing. In order to keep the organisation effective and transparent we are establishing a formal ...

The European Congress on Media Freedom

08/08/2011 - By Lucian MERIȘCA Translated by Andreea ROȘU CRISTINAR Bologna, Italy, May 2011. It so happened that I was the only journalist from Romania to attend the European Congress on Information Freedom and Media Pluralism[1]. Other ...

Festival catalogue now available!

27/07/2011 - We are delighted to announce publication of the catalogue of Transeuropa Festival 2011, with featured interviews, in-depth articles, and reports from all 12 festival cities! Main sections include About the festival - ...

Open letter and an invitation to my young Tunisian and Egyptian friends

29/06/2011 - Flashmob along with the reception of the Caravan of the South for Dignity and Freedom, Tunis, June 23rd (see EA transnational flashmob day on June 23rd) Last week European Alternatives' co-director, Niccolò Milanese, ...

Europe’s new immigration policy

13/06/2011 - Photo – Flickr Article by Elisa Marcon Translation by Claire Tracey In recent years, immigration has become an increasingly pressing phenomenon. Being at the centre of both political and social debates, it has become a ...

Transeuropa Daily #8!

14/05/2011 - the eighth summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 14 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropa Daily #7!

13/05/2011 - the seventh summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 13 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropean appeal for the right to free movement and the maintenance of the Schengen area

12/05/2011 - The right to free movement across the continent and to move across the Schengen area without border controls are two of the foundations of the European community. They are amongst the most popular European achievements, which have ...

Transeuropa Daily #6!

12/05/2011 - the sixth summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 12 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropa Daily #5!

11/05/2011 - the fifth summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 11 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropa daily #4!

10/05/2011 - the fourth summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 10 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropa Daily #3!

10/05/2011 - the third summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 09 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropa Daily #2!

09/05/2011 - the second summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 08 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropa Daily #2!

09/05/2011 - the second summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 08 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropa Daily #2!

09/05/2011 - the second summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 08 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

Transeuropa Daily!

08/05/2011 - the summary of all the events happening in the cities of the Festival, 07 May 2011 See the Transeuropa Daily here

TRANSEUROPA FESTIVAL OPENS!

05/05/2011 - TRANSEUROPA FESTIVAL 6th - 15th of May London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Sofia, Prague, Bologna Bratislava, Cluj-Napoca, Lublin, Edinburgh, Cardiff We are excited to invite you to Transeuropa, a political event and a cultural ...

Volunteers needed for the Transeuropa Festival in London

21/04/2011 - Transeuropa Festival is coming... and London is looking for volunteers! Come to the preparatory meeting on May 4 at 18:00 at the home of the festival: the Rochelle School (Arnold Circus, Shoreditch, E2 7ES). For ...

The EU wants You!

13/04/2011 - Original source: commissionefesta.altervista.org European Alternatives takes part in the Consultation of the European Commission on the Green Paper "Less bureaucracy for citizens: promoting free movement of public documents ...

A very European Story

13/04/2011 - In 2005, Antonio, from Italy and Juan, from Argentina both win a scholarship to study in a university in the UK. The two get to know each other, like each other very much and start going out together. After the end of their ...

Hors la rue: Developing Adequate Solutions in Response to the Phenomena of Unaccompanied Minors in Paris

12/04/2011 - Photo : Elena Dalibot Article written by Alayna Garvin, Project Manager for Hors la rue Hors la rue is a non-profit organisation that supports unaccompanied minors in Paris and the surrounding area. Unaccompanied minors The ...

The Ivory Coast: the forgotten humanitarian crisis

06/04/2011 - Picture from Flickr Article by Alessandro Polvani Translation by Chris Mckee With the majority of the European powers understandably occupied with recent events in Libya, or in following with apprehension the latest news from ...

March for the Alternative: the UK protests against government cuts

24/03/2011 - Foto Flickr Article by Olga Vukovic It is predicted that on Saturday March 26th London will witness the city’s biggest demonstration since the 2003 anti-war protests. This demonstration, ‘March for the ...

Ignorance is NOT bliss!

23/03/2011 - Foto Flickr Article by Mauro Longo Within the framework of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the Commission recently launched a proposal for a Council recommendation on policies to reduce early school leaving. It aims at decreasing the ...

Recognizing the Transition Council: The last chance for the EU (and for the insurgents)

15/03/2011 - Article by Alessandro Polvani Translation by Danielle Moodie The recognition of the National Libyan Transition Council was provided for in a French initiative taken on the 6th of March. On the 10th of March, Britain and Portugal ...

Hungry for Residency: Immigrants’ struggle for recognition in Greece

12/03/2011 - Photo: Flickr Article by Mhairi Blair For almost five weeks there has been a stand-off between immigrants in Athens and the Greek Government, which is refusing to grant residency permits to at least 350,000 migrant workers. ...

A critical approach to moral support: the EU strategy on Roma inclusion

11/03/2011 - Article by Diana Prisacariu Moral support. This is, according to one of the most reliable online dictionaries, the aim of a non-binding resolution such as the one voted on Wednesday March 9th by the European Parliament. The EU ...

Firm but Fair? The Commission’s approach to Croatian Accession

09/03/2011 - Photo: Flickr Article by Alessandro Polvani Translation by Danielle Moodie The negotiations for Croatian accession to the European Union should be concluded by next June, but the matter seems to have come to a standstill. ...

Islam and Europe: East is East and West is West?

07/03/2011 - Photo: Flickr Rebeka Shaid Since 9/11 Europe’s apprehension for its own and the worldwide Muslim populations has been surging. Concerns widely focus on the dangers of Islamist terrorism and the idea of a silent ...

Italy is not a country for women

23/02/2011 - Photo flickr Article by Manuela Lino Translation by Danielle Moody In March 2000, in Lisbon, the European Council established a set of goals related to the economic progress of European Union member states, which were ...

Challenging Convictions: The UK government is warned over its prisoner voting rights policy

12/02/2011 - Article by Mhairi Blair Photo by Maciek Draba/flickr This week the UK government debated the possibility of granting the right to vote in general elections to people in custody, in a response to a ruling by the European ...

Is the EU a credible partner for the creation of a democratic structure in Tunisia?

11/02/2011 - Article by Alexandra Solom. Photo: Flickr/rebelo Translation by Ben Engel Having been Tunisia’s firm friend and partner throughout its history, the European Union has always maintained a privileged relationship with the ...

Is the EU a credible partner for the creation of a democratic structure in Tunisia?

Egypt's road to democracy

08/02/2011 - Photo by flickr By Olga Vukovic Mohamed Bouazizi was the 26 year-old Tunisian fruit vendor whose demands for justice against the unjust actions of a police officer went ignored by his municipality. Frustrated by his desperate ...

Turkey's European Vocation

07/02/2011 - Photo flickr By Irina Dutu Turkey’s accession to the European Union has for some time been a controversial topic, with a definitive outcome seemingly currently elusive..One of the first questions that abounds is: Is ...

Lithuanian legislation on gay relationships

07/02/2011 - By Mhairi Blair This week, European Parliament advised the Lithuanian Government against passing a law banning the ‘promotion of homosexual relationships’. The law, which has not yet been approved by the ...

Only a strong reaction from the EU can give back hope to Belarus

03/02/2011 - Photo: flickr jcolman By: Tena Prelec In the follow-up to the cruent coup d’état taken place on the streets of Minsk last December, political analysts suggest soft power as a wiser way for the EU of approaching the ...

Interview with Enza Roberta Petrillo on the situation in Belarus

03/02/2011 - Photo flickr ajspratley Interview by: Olga Vukovic Translated by:Olga Vukovic Enza Roberta Petrillo is a Policy Analyst Consultant. She mainly wowkr on social dynamics and politics within the Balkans and Eastern Europe. She is ...

Europe's Duty to Support Tunisia's Transition to Democracy

02/02/2011 - Foto: flickr freestyle By:Lakhdar Houamel Translation by: Dierdre Brophy Led by France, European countries have supported the authoritarian regime of Ben Ali up to its last breath. The Europe of the Convention for the ...

Public demonstration against the ghettoisation of Roma in Cluj-Napoca

27/01/2011 - Article by: Daniel Peslari Somewhere in Europe, more to the East, the rulers of a city have learnt a lesson, taught by the president of a great country, more to the West. The lesson is called ‘How to get rid of those who ...

The Greek Wall

10/01/2011 - Picture by Flickr/qbac07 *Note that this wall is in the Border Field State Park in California (San Diego) on the Mexico/US border. The wall in Greece has not yet been erected, and many Greek citizens are struggling with the ...

Get involved!

22/12/2010 - European Alternatives seeks journalists and editors for our website: volunteers and interns. We are also recruiting journalism interns to write for our French and Italian websites Cerchiamo tirocinanti a distanza di giornalismo ...

People, Power, Participation

15/12/2010 - headline photo: misterharrison/Flicker Citizens' Panels - Labour and social rights in Europe To register! The first citizens panel on labour and social rights will take place in London on January 29th at Toynbee ...

Police tactics against protesters breach European Convention on Human Rights

15/12/2010 - photo by Russell Higgs/Flicker article by Niccolo Milanese The last year has seen a swirling eruption of street protest moving through Europe, which most recently has reached the UK and Italy. More and more citizens are in ...

What does the crackdown on WikiLeaks mean for freedom of information?

14/12/2010 - (Photo by Chuck Coker) by Olga Vukovic Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have been appearing in headlines worldwide for almost three months, but the last two weeks have seen the founder of the whistle blowing website at the centre ...

Success of Hungarian Presidency in Jeopardy! Declaration by the Hungarian Europe Society

09/12/2010 - On the eve of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Hungarian Europe Society wishes to express its deep concern over the policy pursued by the Hungarian government. We believe that the ...

The European Citizens' Initiative: where do we stand?

07/12/2010 - Photo: david drexler/Flickr A major innovation of the EU Treaty of Lisbon allowing one million citizens from a significant number of EU Member States to ask the European Commission to propose new legislation, allowing citizens ...

Protest against the censorship of Wojnarowicz

03/12/2010 - We deplore the removal of David Wojnarowicz's video from the exhibition Hide/Seek at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. It is an act of censorship which we condemn. In fact, we are compelled to express our ...

The State of the Media in Europe: Hungary and Bulgaria

03/12/2010 - Article by Federico Guerrieri Hungary Bulgaria A return to a less than democratic past Hungary’s parliament has recently approved the head and members to the Media Council, a powerful five-member body to oversee ...

European Parliament votes on mutual recognition of existing same-sex unions

26/11/2010 - On Tuesday 23 November, the European Parliament in Strasbourg has approved a report on “Civil, commercial, family and private international law” which confirms the necessity for any civil contract (including all forms ...

European Parliament votes on mutual recognition of existing same-sex unions

24/11/2010 - On Tuesday 23 November, the European Parliament in Strasbourg has approved a report on “Civil, commercial, family and private international law” which confirms the necessity for any civil contract (including all forms ...

Climate Change: EU vs Civil Society

23/11/2010 - At the end of November the sixteenth conference on climate change COP16 will take place in Cancun, with the arduous task of resuming a dialogue that was interrupted in Copenhagen and hasn’t since been effectively placed ...

European Citizenship: Myth or Reality?

20/11/2010 - by Meda-Dora Bruchental translated by: Deac Andrei The public debate organised by European Alternatives Cluj entitled “European Citizenship: Between Myth and Reality” took place at the Tailor’s Tower in ...

27-28 November - Rome: 3rd meeting of Transeuropa Network

17/11/2010 - We are excited to announce the third 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 ...

The ‘Berlusconisation’ of Britain?

16/11/2010 - Photo by: Victoria Peckham/Flickr Why Rupert Murdoch’s full takeover of BSkyB must be stopped Interview with: Granville Williams, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom Interview by: Niccolo Milanese Introduction by: ...

Cancun: battleground for climate change

15/11/2010 - photo: andjohan/Flikr by Francesco Martone translated by: Dominique Tuohy At the end of November the sixteenth conference on climate change, COP16, will take place in Cancun, with the arduous task of resuming a dialogue that was ...

Europe's 'outsourced' border: an interview with Dagmawi Ymer

12/11/2010 - Photo by: Rob Surreal Interview by: Flore Murard-Yovanovitch Translated by: Claire Tracey Like a Man on Earth (Come un uomo sulla terra) is a documentary film by Andrea Segre and Dagmawi Ymer which condemns the violation of ...

Testimonials from our Paris debate on the Roma question

12/11/2010 - On October 4th European Alternatives hosted, in conjunction with Café Babel, a lively debate on European citizenship and the position of the Roma in France, with: Helene Flautre, MEP - Greens/EFA, France Vasile Ionescu, ...

Will 20 weeks of maternity leave improve gender equality?

10/11/2010 - On the 20th of October the European Parliament voted an extension of the maternity leave in Europe from 14 to 20 weeks, with a remuneration of 100% of salary. FOR / AGAINST Interview with two European MPs who have ...

'Forcing the Roma out?' Europe, its suburban areas, and the era of intolerance

26/10/2010 - By: Lorenzo Fioramonti Translated by: Claire Tracey There is no doubt that what is happening in France is regrettable, but it would be a mistake to see it as an isolated event. As The Economist wrote last week, European countries ...

The Future of the Roma in Europe

25/10/2010 - Photo: Flikr/Zingaro By: Matthieu le Charpentier Translated by: Deirdre Brophy The Roma in France The Jews have no future in our country. The blacks have no future in our country. The Arabs have no future in our country. ...

Legal proceedings against France still possible: Commission examines the evidence on Roma

20/10/2010 - Over the past couple of months, European Alternatives has been running a campaign to call for the European Commission to take action against France for discriminating against the Roma. Following the expiry of the 15th October ...

Can France prove it has not been discriminating against the Roma?

18/10/2010 - Photo: Flikr/Riacale Translated by: Deirdre Brophy The story surrounding France's discrimination against the Roma has disappeared from the front pages of the newspapers, superceeded by retirement reform, social mobilisation ...

Standing on the threshold of Europe - participative video in Paris and Warsaw

15/10/2010 - Video stills. Copyright Anu Pennanen and Avanton/AvenueB Productions. What is it? Standing on the threshold of Europe is a transnational project that promotes understanding and combating exclusion against migrants and ...

“European citizenship: myth or reality” public debate, Cluj-Napoca, October 21st

14/10/2010 - Join us on Thursday 21 at 17:00 at the Tailor's Tower (Bastionul Croitorilor) in Cluj-Napoca for a public debate on the concept of European citizenship, with a particular focus on the situation of the Roma in France. Key ...

Join Our Public Debate on the Roma Question on Monday Oct 4th in Paris

30/09/2010 - Are Roma European Citizens like any others? For a european action in defence of fundamental rights When ? Monday Oct 4 - from 7pm to 8.30 pm Where ? European Parliament Representation, Paris 288, boulevard Saint-Germain. 75007 ...

Don't let France off the hook, don't let the Roma down!

29/09/2010 - Don't forget to see our debate, articles and commentaries on this issue. Don't let France off the hook for discriminating against the Roma. The European Commission should be ready to take action against France T he ...

We Are All Roma Now

28/09/2010 - (Photo: riacale/Flikr) Roma European citizens have the same rights as all other European citizens, and their rights must be defended, otherwise European citizenship means nothing. This fundamental principle of European ...

Immigration and Human Rights in Europe

21/09/2010 - (Photo: Fibonacci Blue/Flikr) By: Veronic Algeri Translated by: Daniela Stoycheva The phenomenon of irregular migration, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), develops at a rate of ...

Commissioner Reding Defends Same-Sex Rights

21/09/2010 - (Photo: cinocino/Flickr) Justice, Fundamental Rights, and Citizenship Commissioner Vivianne Reding recently came under fire for her staunch defense of the principle of non-discrimination and the right to free movement, publicly ...

TRANSEUROPA NETWORK

31/08/2010 - We are excited to present 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. Click here ...

Heteronormativity and gender equality

31/08/2010 - Photo by: FedericaVangelisti Photographer Heteronormativity is the word to express the way of life of our society, the way we should live, act and react: is the reinforcement of certain beliefs by many social institutions and ...

We are all Roma now

30/07/2010 - ‘They tow their caravans with Mercedes but declare they have no revenue!’ With these words the interior minister of France, Brice Hortefeux, announced that 300 ‘illegal camps or squats’ of travelling people ...

Europe and the factory of good politics

28/07/2010 - by Emanuele Gatto Eyafjallajökull. Unpronounceable even after looking it up on the Internet – and there’s no way you can get any help from www.howjsay.com. The name of the Icelandic volcano was used as the ...

Media and power in Argentina. Interview with Juan Gabriel Mariotto

26/07/2010 - (Photo: Celeste/Flickr) Giulietto Chiesa interviews Juan Gabriel Mariotto Translation by Sarah Potter In this exclusive interview with Giuletto Chiesa, the Argentinean Minister for Communications, Juan Gabriel Mariotto, explains ...

Media Freedom in Europe: the case of Romania

13/07/2010 - Article by Diana Prisacariu One may wonder what do the South American countries of Bolivia, El Salvador, and Brazil have in common with Romania, except for the Romance language spoken by the majority of their population? They all ...

Forum China-Europe

06/07/2010 - Third biennial of the China-Europa Forum Converse to converge: Forging a common vision between Europe and China China and Europe share common challenges that need common answers. This is the objective of the third ...

EU-Russia Relations: a chance not to be missed

30/06/2010 - Article by Federico Guerrieri. Photo by El Enigma/flickr Until the 1980s, relations between the European Community and the Soviet Union were frozen in the Cold War. When Mikhail Gorbachev became Secretary General of the Communist ...

For a European Initiative for Media Pluralism

29/06/2010 - The European Initiative for Media Pluralism is a European campaign to push for greater protection of media pluralism at EU-level. The Initiative responds to growing threats to the independence and liberty of information in Europe, ...

OSCE calls on Hungarian Government to halt media legislation package

28/06/2010 - Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, appealed to the Hungarian Government today to halt draft media legislation that is to be voted on in Parliament next week, and to start public consultations ...

Time to sanction liberties, not deficits

28/06/2010 - Photo: Quinn Anya / Flickr We have recently seen growing attempts at some form of European economic governance, an issue mostly debated in the European Council under Van Rompuy’s lead. There are many problems with the ...

Three Job Opportunities at European Alternatives

25/06/2010 - We are excited to announce three full time vacancies! Please read carefully the descriptions below and the procedures to apply, as they vary with each post. All applications and CVs are to be sent in English. All positions are ...

Margherita Hack and the future of Italy

23/06/2010 - Margherita Hack (Pietrasanta: June, 12, 2010) Saturday, 12, June 2010, was Margherita Hack’s birthday. The astrophysics participated at the event: ‘Anteprima: ti presento il mio prossimo libro’ in Pietrasanta ...

Linking Alternatives: For a Europe of global rights

20/06/2010 - The fourth “Cumbre de los Pueblos", which took place recently in Madrid, provided an opportunity to imagine a different relationship between Europe and Latin American, built under the banner of human rights and global justice. ...

What does it mean to ask what is democracy?

18/06/2010 - 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 ...

Job Opportunity: Festival and Network Coordinator

17/06/2010 - New Job Opening: Transeuropa Festival and Network Coordinator European Alternatives is currently looking to fill a key position in the organisation, suitable for a motivated professional with a high degree of passion and ...

Précarité urbaine et Mal Logement

16/06/2010 - Par Matthieu Le Charpentier Prenez cinq spécialistes de la question de la précarité autour de la ville, de la santé, du logement; invitez les à venir s’exprimer à une ...

28 June - Manchester: Recession in Europe and the response of civil society

15/06/2010 - 2pm - 5pm 28th June GMCVO, Ardwick Green North, Manchester M12 6FZ This is a crucial time for the future of Europe. Decisions being taken now about the response to economic crisis throughout Europe will affect not only the future ...

June 19th, 2010 - Berlin: EA meeting with Lorenzo Fioramonti and Lorenzo Marsili

15/06/2010 - On Saturday 19th of June at 18.00 a meeting of the organization European Alternatives will take place in Berlin. We will talk about the new campaign Media Pluralism and Freedom of the Press with EA co-director Lorenzo Marsili ...

European Parliament’s Delegation to Nepal

11/06/2010 - By Jean Lambert. Landing in Nepal last month, the political climate was fraught with tension, confusion and apprehension as the deadline for a new Constitution loomed. With no final resolution in sight, the two ruling parties, ...

An even closer (civil) union

11/06/2010 - (Photo: cinocino/Flickr) By Alessandro Valera. Gay rights have quickly moved from being an issue of fringe political activism to become a mainstream political issue. When in 2001 (only nine years ago!) the Netherlands became the ...

Europe: Final Crisis?

31/05/2010 - Europe: Final Crisis? Some theses by Etienne Balibar 1. This is only the beginning of the crisis Within one single month, we have witnessed Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece announcing his country’s default, an expansive ...

Europe not bold enough on climate action

28/05/2010 - by Lorenzo Fioramonti Recently published! A Briefing Paper by Lorenzo Fioramonti expanding on the arguments above. Click the front-cover toaccess it online. A recent policy paper published by the EU Commission argues that the ...

On nomadism: Interview with Rosi Braidotti

25/05/2010 - (Photo: steve phillips/Flickr) Rosi Braidotti’s work lies at the intersection of political theory, cultural politics, gender theory and ethnicity studies. The core of her interdisciplinary work consists of four ...

8 June - Brussels - Media Pluralism and Democracy

25/05/2010 - (Photo: Celeste/Flickr) Media Pluralism and Democracy 8th of June, 2.30pm – 4.30pm European Parliament (Bruxelles), Room PHS 7 C 50 Note: Accreditation required to enter the European Parliament. If you would like to ...

Things are moving!

21/05/2010 - Welcome to a new version of the euroalter homepage! Bear with us while we get everything working properly, including daily comments on European political life appearing soon in this spot...

Che cos'è la democrazia? Una risposta tra arte e pratica politica

20/05/2010 - - Caterina Ponzoni Quella labile linea grigia tra istanza artistica e sfera politica sociale, è il luogo in cui si fa spazio il video, intitolato What is Democracy?, dell’artista viennese Oliver Ressler, presentato il ...

Riflessioni sul Festival: il mondo vive nelle città

18/05/2010 - - Caterina Ponzoni Sabato 7 maggio è stata la giornata che il festival Transeuropa ha dedicato alla città, con un tour di Bologna. La passeggiata, guidata dai senza fissa dimora, si è concentrata sul cuore ...

Transeuropa Journalism Award

18/05/2010 - European Alternatives, Youth Press Italia, and Youth Media are pleased to announce winners for the Transeuropa Journalism Award "From A to B". Participants of the Award, part of the Transeuropa Festival, first ...

Ulrich Beck: For a cosmopolitan outlook

15/05/2010 - Invierno Porteño, by Ernesto Morales. Scross down for info on the images. In this interview Ulrich Beck claim the necessity for an inclusive, cosmopolitan outlook capable of breaking “with the seductive insularity of ...

P2, Berlusconi and the Media

10/05/2010 - Article by Federico Guerrieri, Picture by clairegren European Alternatives has produced a dossier on the state of the media in Italy. As we underline in that report, Italy is the only Western democracy where the prime minister ...

Il tour di Bologna senza fissa dimora

09/05/2010 - - Diletta Pignedoli Sabato 8 maggio – Un intenso e partecipato pomeriggio camminando alla scoperta dei luoghi di una Bologna nascosta, quella vissuta dalle persone senza fissa dimora. Documentato dai giovani giornalisti ...

Sguardo InGenere: Maria Chiara Patuelli e le storie di migranti

07/05/2010 - - Eva Brugnettini Maria Chiara Patuelli, intervenuta nel dibattito sulla mobilità femminile per l’appuntamento del Transeuropa Festival a Bologna il 3 maggio, si occupa di migrazione già da prima di ...

Report: incontro Bologna Process a Parigi

07/05/2010 - Bologna Process- Incontro di Parigi, 4 Maggio Report di Martina Martignoni L'incontro organizzato – in collaborazione con European Alternatives – da edu-factory insieme a Sud etudiant di Paris1 sul Bologna Process ...

Roma Event (Spazio 26cc) - 12th of May at 7pm with Rosa Jijon

05/05/2010 - Dopo il primo evento tenutosi mercoledi 21 aprile alla libreria La Tuba, European Alternatives vi invita a presenziare al secondo della serie d'incontri sulla tematica “ Segregazione e esclusione nelle ...

No country for old men: elderly people in the EU

04/05/2010 - (Day 35. photo by: Federica Vangelisti) The number of elderly people in the world, particularly in Europe, increases quickly. The ageing of the population is by now an international phenomenon, with all the problems connected to ...

What future for Europe? Turkey, Israel and two levels of Union

03/05/2010 - Article by Federico Guerrieri Photo bt Harry_NL/flickr During his recent (1st of February 2010) visit to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi expressed his hope to include Israel ...

9th of May - London: What is democracy? Forum with Saskia Sassen

29/04/2010 - 9th of May, Europe Day - 1pm to 6.30 pm Toynbee Hall - 28 Commercial Street E1 6LS A one-day forum with an opening lecture by Saskia Sassen Three days after the British elections, Saskia Sassen will open a Forum addressing the ...

3rd of May - Local meeting in Berlin (open to everyone)

29/04/2010 - European Alternatives is organizing a local meeting in Berlin on Monday 3rd of May, 7.30pm, at Senti (Paul-Linke-Ufer). The meeting is open to everyone!! Everybody is welcome to join us. We will present the Organization explaing ...

Meeting of the Berlin Group

27/04/2010 - The next meeting of the Berlin Group will take place in Cafe Senti on monday evening 3rd may. If you are interested in joining us, please send an email to: berlin@euroalter.com Click here to join the event on Facebook. We are ...

The Humiliation of Women: The Situation in Italy

26/04/2010 - (Photo: Cristian Iotti, Simona Galassi. Campionessa del Mondo WBC pesi Mosca femminili, 47,55 x 31,7 cm. www.cristianiotti.com) As time goes by in Italy we see more and more systematic attacks on the victories won by feminism. ...

From Copenhagen to Cancun: in search of climate justice

25/04/2010 - (Foto: Metrix X/Flickr) Recent negotiations on climate change have shown that most developed countries are unwilling to repay their ecological debts. By Francesco Martone, translation by Sarah Potter. From 9-11th April this year, ...

21 April - Rome - Debate with De Genova

18/04/2010 - Libreria Tuba, via del Pigneto Mercoledi' 21 aprile Ore 19.00 Mercoledi' 21 aprile organizziamo a Roma un incontro del gruppo romano, seguito da un dibattito con il teorico americano Nicholas de Genova (trovate una ...

New Issue of Transeuropa Magazine!

16/04/2010 - NEW ISSUE OF TRANSEUROPA MAGAZINE OUT We are delighted to announce the publication of a new issue of our bimonthly magazine, Transeuropa. This issue brings together prestigious and new voices in the political, philosophical, and ...

Carlo Jaeger: For a climate alliance

10/04/2010 - (Photo: jef safi (pictosophizing)/Flickr) Before the debate in Perugia on 14-16th April, where the “Climate Alliance Conference: Perugia 2010” was held, Karl-Ludwig Schibel interviewed Carlo Jaeger. From ...

20 April – Bologna – Salon Europa: Waiting for Transeuropa

06/04/2010 - Salon Europa Waiting for Transeuropa Tuesday 20th April 2010, h. 18:00 Libreria Feltrinelli International, via Zamboni, 7/b – Bologna (Photo fabbriciuse/flickr) This new public event organized by European Alternatives will ...

10 April - Rome - Conference on Common Goods and Participation

05/04/2010 - (Image: H2O Turkish Connection, a new film on water privatisation) Common Goods and New Forms of Participation 10 April, 5pm Aula 6 (piano terra) della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza – Università degli Studi Roma ...

First Italian Migrants' Strike: Its success and its future.

05/04/2010 - (Photo: Avanguardie.info Web Magazine/Flickr) The degree of racism in a country is an indicator for the level of its internal crisis. In Italy, where this rate is rising dangerously, it is necessary to continue along the route ...

Feminism in International Relations: Elise Boulding

05/04/2010 - Article by Federico Guerrieri, Picture by fawcettsociety Elise M. Boulding, a Norwegian Quaker sociologist, has been called the matriarch of the 20th Century peace research movement. Elise Boulding is one of the most important ...

We are all guilty of murder

29/03/2010 - Our policies kill. Our current political actions impact on the lives and survival of people in the present and in the future. Political transformation requires time - the longer we hesitate to tackle necessary reforms the more ...

London: two events on migration and democracy coming up

27/03/2010 - (Foto: manifesto of the French initiative "Une journée sans immigrés") On Tuesday March 30 and Wednesday March 31 in London we will be organising a workshop and a conference on questions of migration, political participation, ...

A challenge for Europe - Mitteleuropa

24/03/2010 - There is an area in Europe where different people experience an interesting cohabitation – Mitteleuropa. There is a region in Mitteleuropa where three communities learned to live together – Transylvania. There is a ...

Samir Amin: Emerging from capitalism in crisis?

22/03/2010 - (Photo: jef safi (pictosophizing)/Flickr) The Marxism of Samir Amin A meeting with the Egyptian economist whose latest book reasserts his quest for alternatives to overcome capitalism, which he describes as “a brief ...

Sweden-Turkey: a new chapter of the Armenian genocide

18/03/2010 - "Patnos, Van-Armenian women". Photo by: haabet2003/Flickr). "People who ignore their past, will never understand their present". (Indro Montanelli) In the past days came to the fore an argument of which nobody want to talk ...

The perception of the Roma in Romania

17/03/2010 - (Photo: SantiMB/Flickr) Even though Romanian authorities are unwilling to recognize it, the current means used in order to improve the perception and conditions of the Roma minority in Romania are inefficient. By Diana ...

Saskia Sassen confirms attendance

16/03/2010 - We are excited to announce that internationally renowned sociologist and critical thinker Saskia Sassen has agreed to participate to the London and Bologna editions of Transerupa. Full details coming soon! Saskia Sassen (born ...

UK elections: Thousands of Brits give their votes to Afghans, Bangladeshi and Ghanaian

16/03/2010 - It is controversial and has provoked the british nationalists. It is new and might raise awareness for an issue that is currently not part of the public debate. The Give Your Vote project is getting to the bottom of what the ...

Giving Citizens a Voice

16/03/2010 - (Photo: jef safi (pictosophizing)/Flickr) This article supports our work towards pluralism of information, instigated in collaboration with the European Campaign for Free Media in Italy. By Giovanni Melogli, translation by ...

Goodbye, Emil

16/03/2010 - ("Rom". Photo by: robertoilpisano/Flickr). Milan.May,13, 2010. Emil Enea, 13, can dye like this on 2010: in a fire burnt up into the "nomad-camp" where he lived. He spent half of his life moving from different areas outside ...

Call for contribution: Imagine the sustainable city of the future!

12/03/2010 - Environmental and social inequalities. Call for contribution to students in Architecture and Sustainable Development: What solutions to improve the urban conditions for all of us? What proposals for the sustainable architecture ...

Squatting the crisis: perspectives on radical change

12/03/2010 - (Photo: krawallo²/Flickr) On the current protest in education and perspectives on radical change By Lina Dokuzović and Eduard Freudmann* This article is part of our series of events on the Bologna process part of Transeuropa ...

We Won’t Pay for Your Crisis!

12/03/2010 - This article supports our work related to the Bologna Process Forum as part of the Transeuropa Festival. (Photo: el Rafa/Flickr) We Won’t Pay for Your Crisis! Anomalous Wave, Living Knowledge, and the Common Institutions By ...

Democratisation of the Media in Brazil

11/03/2010 - (Photo: jef safi (pictosophizing)/Flickr) This article supports our work towards pluralism of information, instigated in collaboration with the European Campaign for Free Media in Italy. During the first National Conference ...

Niqab: to be welcomed in the name of multiculturalism?

10/03/2010 - (Photo: See Wah/Flickr) In response to: Burqa: between judgments and prejudices, by Valeria Venturini By Andrea Glioti* At first sight, the French ban on the wearing of full Islamic covering – the niqab as well as the burqa – ...

31st March - London - Political Parties

08/03/2010 - (Photo: Italian students in the courtyard of the Louise Weiss building in Strasbourg. @European Parliament/Pietro Naj-Oleari/Flickr) What is the future for political parties in Europe? 31st March 2010 2pm - 5.30pm London ...

30 March - London - Workshop with organisers of Migrants' Strike

08/03/2010 - (Foto: manifesto of the French initiative "Une journée sans immigrés") As part of the two-day conference Migrants and the media, European Alternatives will be running a workshop on the media reaction to the recent migrant ...

23 March - Berlin - Challenging Exclusion: New forms of participation

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18 March - London - Do Europeans need common values?

07/03/2010 - Do we need a new form of transnational civic membership? Do we need to rethink civic rights and responsibilities beyond those rooted in the nation state? Do we need to imagine forms of post-national political participation? Can ...

15 March – Bologna – Salon Europa: Climate change and social injustices

07/03/2010 - [ Salon Europa – Dialogues on Transnationalism Climate Change and Social Injustice Monday 15th March 2010, h. 18:00 Libreria Feltrinelli, piazza Ravegnana, 1 – Bologna European Alternatives organizes a new meeting as ...

Against Fortress Europe: Day without migrants!

05/03/2010 - En soutien à la journée sans immigrés, Alternatives Européennes a participé à la manifestation sur le Parvis de l’Hôtel de Ville à Paris le 1er mars 2010. Cette initiative a mobilisé au-delà des frontières nationales ...

New video documentary of Polis 21 project

05/03/2010 - Here you can find a short video-documentary of our Polis 21 project, examining questions of migration and urban exclusion in Athens, Belgrade, and Zagreb. The project Polis 21 / Locus Solus, organised by European Alternatives, Out ...

‘Sans-Papiers’ on Strike

05/03/2010 - (Photo: William Hamon (aka Ewns)/Flickr) Recent French history has shown the contradictions between governmental immigration policies and the increasing mobilisation of foreign workers. They are demanding rights. And are on ...

LoSbarco - Transnationalism against indifference

05/03/2010 - The present political, social and economic conditions in Italy are becoming less and less attractive for young people willing to live and work with dignity in their home country. The ruling class's dearth as well as the wide ...

Job Opening: Administrator/Project-Manager

04/03/2010 - European Alternatives is looking for a motivated administrator/project manager to help us handle our growing amount of work. The position would be ideal for someone looking to gain experience in running transnational and European ...

Keep out of reach of children

04/03/2010 - (Gay Pride in London, 2007. Photo by Cinzia Paterlini). "We can hope that homophobia will become this: a repertory of innocous sterotypes which are taken seriosuly just by some stupid person, while all the others joke about it". ...

Interview with Stefania Ragusa and Grazia Naletto

03/03/2010 - Intervista a Stefania Ragusa e Grazia Naletto in occasione del Salon romano del 23 febbraio 2010, dal titolo "Da Rosarno al primo marzo. Lavoro, diritti, razzismo". Di Giuliano Battiston e Massimiliano Nespola

Audio-report from Bologna salon on migration

02/03/2010 - Salon Europa – Percorsi Migranti (Bologna, 18 febbraio 2010) Report e Rassegna stampa L’Italia è stata recentemente teatro di episodi di violenza, esplosi tra i migranti africani che lavorano in condizioni disumane nelle ...

The UN and discrimination in Italy

02/03/2010 - (Photo: riacale/Flickr) By Marina Chiarugi. Translation by Sarah Potter In its Universal Periodic Review, the UN Human Rights Council criticised the policies of the Italian government and the terms of its “security ...

No More Water for Africa's Rivers

01/03/2010 - Article by Federico Guerrieri, Image by robin.elaine As European Alternatives has already analysed in previous articles, climate change can be considered the greatest challenge of the 21st Century. Climate change directly affects ...

Migration and Underdevelopment: What's Europe's Responsibility?

01/03/2010 - by Federico Guerrieri Immigration has always been an important issue in internal politics, especially in Southern Europe. Migrants are often seen as responsible for all sorts of national problems, from the high level of ...

Natural Monuments in Cluj County

26/02/2010 - Cluj County’s territory is characterized by a great variety of landscapes and landforms. The numerous natural monuments increase its touring importance. The most impressive recreational resources are: Gilau, Vladeasa and ...

First world vote debated at event in EU Parliament

25/02/2010 - Dr. N. Beger, J. Marsden, G. Watson, A. Bummel (Photo: UNPA/Flickr) At an event inside the European Parliament hosted by European lawmaker Graham Watson, the Club of Rome and the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, the ...

A migrants' strike in Italy and France

24/02/2010 - (Photo: "Une journée sans immigrés") Di Francesca Casafina, traduzione di Valentina La Gatta A day without foreigners. This may seem a macabre commercial for the xenophobic Italian Northern League party, but it is actually the ...

Drops of diversity

24/02/2010 - It can be said that the main incentive that determines the development of Cluj is represented by its students. That's why the city goes to sleep during the holidays and gets back to life at the beginning of each academic year. ...

Facts about MY Cluj

23/02/2010 - The city of Cluj is situated on the Somes River, at the feet of the Apuseni Mountains (part of the Carpathians). Besides from being a very old city, it is also very crowded nowadays; but in the same time it is a green city: the ...

Cluj-Napoca, European cultural and universitary centre

22/02/2010 - Cluj-Napoca is one of the most important cities in Romania not only from the academic point of view but also because of the artistic and cultural lifestyle which proves to be the richest after Bucharest, the capital city. The City ...

Beyond GDP lies economic degrowth

22/02/2010 - Also related (French and Italian): La mesure du bien-être n’est elle qu’une question d’économistes? (Photo: Twaize/Flickr) Going beyond GDP accounting in Europe should mean to go into a multicriteria assessment of the ...

Cluj…or how names can make the best (his)stories

22/02/2010 - Napoca- in Roman times the former Dacian village became the heart of the province of Dacia Porolissensis, famous for its gold and salt mines and was soon granted the status of a colony . Clus- during the Dark Ages, it managed to ...

Alexander Langer Award: Stava 1985

20/02/2010 - (Image of the trial. Photo by Stava1985) On June 16, 1985 the Stava Onlus 1985 received the Alexander Langer Award. The prize, financially supported by the Ethic Bank (Banca Etica), aims to promote the associations which work in ...

Livorno: another clearing out of a Roma camp

16/02/2010 - Livorno, Tuscany, 8 am: a cold day in mid-February. The day designated for the eviction of the “Roma camp” in Via di Levante. The camp is a large piece of land that defines the boundary between a large street and cemetery: ...

Democracy major theme of Transeuropa in London

15/02/2010 - Britain of all countries poses the democratic question with regards to the European Union the most often and most forcefully. Yet ironically this year Britain, which has long been regarded as the inventor and home of democracy by ...

The limits of GDP

10/02/2010 - (Photo: ToniVC/Flickr) By Tommaso Rondinella. Measuring well-being beyond GDP. Related article (in Français): La mesure du bien-être n’est elle qu’une question d’économistes? In 1934, the creator of GDP, Simon Kuznets, ...

European Alternatives Activist Agenda

05/02/2010 - (Photo: Trevor Haldenby / Flickr) This is the first of a series of newsletters we regularly send out to all members and activists of European Alternatives. Here you can find information on all ongoing activities from our local ...

3 March - Paris - Democracy, NGOs, and International Relations

05/02/2010 - (Photo: Trevor Haldenby/Flickr) Wednesday 3 March 2010. Maison De L'Europe, 35 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, Paris Organised by European Alternatives in collaboration with Maison de l'Europe, with the support if the Charles Leopold ...

3 March - Paris - Press Conference on Media Concentration

05/02/2010 - Following our conference in Paris on March 3rd on civil society participation in international relations, we have organised a press conference to discuss the contributions civil society could bring to the formulation of a European ...

Salons on Migration, Rome - Bologna

04/02/2010 - We are pleased to announce the beginning of regular monthly salons both in Bologna and in Rome. This is part of a wider expansion that will soon see salons popping up in Paris, Berlin, Cluj, and other cities. This February, Salon ...

23 February - Rome - Salon Europa

04/02/2010 - (Foto: Manifestazione No Cpt, Bari, ottobre 2005,RICCIO "il colore del ricordo inganna"/Flickr) European Alternatives extends the project Salon Europa, our monthly pan-European series of seminars, toRome with a first meeting by ...

18th February - Bologna - Salon Europa / Migration

04/02/2010 - (Photo: Gianni D./flickr) Salon Europa - Dialogues on Transnationalism Perspectives on Immigration Thursday 18 February 2010 - h. 18:00 Libreria Feltrinelli, piazza Ravegnana, 1 - Bologna European Alternatives organizes a new ...

18 February - London - Citizenship after Orientalism

04/02/2010 - Do we need a new form of transnational civic membership? Do we need to rethink civic rights and responsibilities beyond those rooted in the nation state? Do we need to imagine forms of post-national political participation? Can ...

17 February - Florence - Salon Europa / Social Movements

04/02/2010 - Salon Europa, our monthly pan-European series of seminars, opens this February in Florence at the European University Institute with a first meeting reflecting on the question of transnational movements and the relation between ...

POLIS 21 project: Migration, Exclusion, Democracy in the New City

03/02/2010 - The project Polis 21 / Locus Solus, organised by European Alternatives, Out of the Box, and numerous other partners and with the support of the European Cultural Foundation, asked about the boundaries of the city in Europe in the ...

Burqa: between judgments and prejudices

02/02/2010 - (Beggar in chador- Tehran. Photo by: Damon Lynch/ Flickr www.damonlynch.net). "And say to the believers to lower their eyes and (..) do not show too much of their beautiful pieces, except what is outside, and put a veil over ...

Is measuring well-being just a question for economists?

01/02/2010 - By Fabien Couderc, translation by Sarah Potter The Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress made its report last month. This Commission, conceived by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has the ...

For a Europe open to the world

29/01/2010 - (Photo: Rusty Stewwat/Flickr) It is time for the EU to move away from its inegalitarian policies towards the countries of the South. A revived European left cannot limit itself to the merely national or even European sphere, but ...

Turkey in Europe: take it to the streets!

28/01/2010 - Today I attended the presentation of the new report written by the Independent Commission on Turkey. It was a pleasure listening to the role model politicians Emma Bonino, Martti Ahtisaari, Hans van den Broek and Albert Rohan. The ...

Salon Europa: dialogue in the city

26/01/2010 - (Photo: Brussels, November 2009: 89 young people from all 27 EU Member States born in November 1989 flooded into the European Parliament to participate in a debate "What Europe means to me". ©European Parliament/Pietro ...

Post-Schengen: a difficult situation in Slovak prisons

25/01/2010 - (Photo by Michele Brancati-reportage: "Big Brother Slovacco") "All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with respect for their human rights". (Art. 1- European Prison Rules) On January 2007, 21, the Schengen ...

Transnational parties in Europe

21/01/2010 - (Photo: Italian students in the courtyard of the Louise Weiss building in Strasbourg. @European Parliament/Pietro Naj-Oleari/Flickr) By Guilhem Delteil A candidate for the next presidency of the European Commission in 2014 ...

Democratising the European Union: Putting Power in the Hands of Citizens

21/01/2010 - (Photo: Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak/Flickr) The ‘democratic deficit’ in the European Union is perhaps one of the few things that almost everyone knows about it. Throughout at least all the ‘old’ democracies of Europe, there is ...

Polis21 on the press

21/01/2010 - Polis 21 is project run by European Alternatives, based on three conferences and artistic interventions on the new city, torn between global fluxes of capital and people, and a return of xenophobia and privatisation of public ...

Ein Parlament mit einem Zweck

20/01/2010 - Die European Alternatives rufen das Europäische Parlament dazu auf von Jose Barroso, dem Präsidenten der Europäischen Kommission, zu fordern, dass er drei Bedingungen zustimmt, um die europäischen Entscheidungsprozesse ...

Practicing Dialectic: Chto Delat and Method

20/01/2010 - The artistic collective 'What is to be done?’ (Chto Delat in Russian) is based in St Petersburg. Dmitry Vilensk, member of the collective, muses on the method of the group as a form of dialectic, and as a form of artistic and ...

Prague's Muslims look towards Europe

19/01/2010 - The Prague Muslim community's meeting place reflects its situation: it is a tiny, busy and a rather hidden prayer room, but in the very centre of Prague. There is small mosque in a nicely renovated house at the outskirts of ...

Changeutopia! on the press

19/01/2010 - ChangeUtopia! is a series of events launched by European Alternatives between December 2008 and May 2009 in Bologna, Paris, London, Barcelona and Warsaw. Here all the press articled about Changeutopia! on the web: Lab for ...

Hrant Dink: an anniversary to remember

18/01/2010 - ("Hrant Dick". Photo by: ucmorlale/Flickr). "I spent my life in Istanbul on the European side, in homes that looked out on the other side, Asia. One day it was built a bridge connecting the two shores of the Bosphorus. When I got ...

A Parliament with a Purpose

14/01/2010 - European Alternatives is calling on the European Parliament to demand Jose Barroso, President of the European Commission, make European decision-making more democratic. Over the coming months the Parliament has an opportunity to ...

Refiguring Citizenship: London Events from January 21

14/01/2010 - (Photo: Public art installation called "Agora" by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road in Chicago, Illinois. Atelier Teee/Flickr) This event is organised in partnership with the LSE Forum for European ...

Gender equality: same-sex marriage in Portugal

14/01/2010 - ( "Portugal Parliament". Photo by: rvacapinta/Flickr) On January, 8th, 2010, Portugal has taken a further step forward for gay rights within the country. After the 2001 law, in which Portugal had treated de facto couples, ...

The Future of Representation

13/01/2010 - (Foto: ©European Parliament/Pietro Naj-Oleari/Flickr) Over the course of 2009-2010 European Alternatives, in partnership with the Federal Trust and with the support of the European Parliament, is organising a series of ...

The Anti-Sites in the new city

13/01/2010 - (Photo: Survival Group/Flickr) Arnaud Elfort and Guillaume Schaller from the Survival Group have photographed these spaces that have been built to exclude in the new city. European Alternatives went to ask them about their ...

The post-national polis

12/01/2010 - (Photo: Public art installation called "Agora" by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road in Chicago, Illinois. Atelier Teee/Flickr) We need new collective symbols for the construction of new ways of being ...

COP15: my first UN-conference

11/01/2010 - I went to Copenhagen, to fight for a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty. I went to fight for global democracy. (Photo: Pavel Ryczan/Egality) Arriving in Copenhagen on Sunday the 13th I was full of hopes and excitement. ...

European Alternatives Commentary on Commission Hearings

11/01/2010 - (Photo: ©European Parliament/Pietro Naj-Oleari/Flickr) The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union, and the European Commissioners are some of the most powerful figures in Europe. Under the Lisbon Treaty ...

Togo football team attack: is sports governing journalism or is reportage definitely dead?

11/01/2010 - What happened in Cabinda area, on the border between Angola and DR Congo has astonished the whole world audience. Emotional nearness? Of course, but towards victims as football players! Reading, listening, watching news about the ...

Nancy Fraser: Transnational power and public sphere

09/01/2010 - Nancy Fraser is a celebrated critical theorist and a feminist. Europa asks her about the transnationalisation of the public sphere, radical justice and the crisis and pulling feminism back from neoliberalism. EA: You are one of ...

Redefining the Bologna Process

08/01/2010 - This article supports our work related to the Bologna Process Forum as part of the Transeuropa Festival

Europe in the world: effects on Migration

08/01/2010 - Susan George is an author, Board Chair of the Transnational Institute, and Honorary President of Attac-France. This article is part of the Transnational Institute’s ongoing research in EU Trade Policy. (Photo: William ...

‘Flopenhagen’: We must go beyond European weakness

07/01/2010 - (Photo: Piotr Fajfer / Oxfam International) By Lorenzo Fioramonti* In spite of the political rhetoric, we all know that the COP15 was a complete failure. Contrary to what was declared by the UN secretary general and some world ...

The Edu-Factory Machine: Transnational Politics and Translational Institutions

06/01/2010 - (Photo: Rete Studenti Massa/Flickr) by Gigi Roggero and Edufactory collective The old institutions are crumbling – from central banks to political parties, from museums to newspapers, from broadcast television to schools. They ...

A Humanism of Minorities: Art as a Research into Identities

06/01/2010 - In Cluj-Napoca, Romania, “The Sparkling Gypsy Copper” exhibition at Galeria ClujEst features works remaking and simulating everyday life objects, which gain a Gypsy “colour” transposed full scale in copper. Many issues ...

Yemen: a new war on the way?

05/01/2010 - ("Shibam-Yemen-Walk in Magic Light". Photo by Lucie Debelkova / Flickr-www.luciedebelkova.com.). Since 2004, north of Yemen has been the stage of clashes between followers of 'Imam al-Houthi and the army: in response to threats ...

Salon Europa: Transnational Journalism - Bologna, 14th January

05/01/2010 - [caption id="attachment_4591" align="alignnone" width="560" caption="(Photo: sgrace/Flickr)"][/caption] Salon Europa - Dialogues on Transnationalism Transnational Journalism Thursday 14 January 2010, h. 18:00 Libreria Feltrinelli, ...

A new case of denied rights in China

29/12/2009 - (The Great Firewall of China-Information-FILTRATION NATION Shangay, China Photo by: lifemage / Flickr) China announced this morning at 10.30am local time (2.30 am in England) the execution by lethal injection of a British citizen ...

Back to the BASIC: climate change and global governance

26/12/2009 - (Photo: Chuckumentary/Flickr) By Janine Schall-Emden* (GlobalReboot) Related: Climate change is not about the environment. It is about justice The global summit on climate change in Copenhagen was not just an international ...

Serbian's path towards EU

23/12/2009 - (”Belgrade, Serbia (Beograd, Srbija) St Sava Orthodox Temple” Photo by: sonja71/Flickr) Today Serbia officially put in for EU membership. Milica Delević, head of the Serbian Office for European Integration, said: "We ...

Social services in time of recession: What can the EU do to ensure their continued provision?

22/12/2009 - (Photo: [I'm not there]/Flickr) By Jean Lambert, Green MEP for London, is one of two UK Green representatives in the European Parliament. Over the last 18 months the EU has seen many growing pressures on its social services ...

Reconnecting Power and Politics

22/12/2009 - By Zygmunt Bauman (Photo: Mariusz Kubik/Wikipedia Commons) Ten years ago Gerhard Schröder declared that: ‘economic policy is neither left not right. It is either good or bad’. Today we can conclude that this was a ...

Be network my friend

21/12/2009 - (Photo: Onkel Wart/Flickr) by Joan Miguel Gual and Francesco Salvini In the context of changing forms of power and control the network is a fertile ground for the rediscovery of autonomous actions and reinvention of political ...

The failure of Copenhagen is the failure of the EU

21/12/2009 - Article by Federico Guerrieri, picture by The White House/flickr The UN Conference on Climate Change which took place in Copenhagen between the 7th and 18th of December 2009 ended in failure. The agreement signed is not legally ...

The intellectual space in Europe

21/12/2009 - (Photo: Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, Galleria dell' Accademia, Venice (1485-90), Wikipedia Commons) The cradle of nationalism, Europe can be a laboratory for rethinking cultural diversity in a global denationalized world: ...

Inconvenient voices: Sakharov Prize 2009

20/12/2009 - (”End of freedom” Photo by: ABD AL-RAHMAN AL TERKIT/Flickr) "Freedom of thought is the mother of all freedoms". Each year around the 10th of December, date when it was signed the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", the ...

Towards new economic balances: ended the age of the Dollar?

20/12/2009 - ("My Lucky Dollar [metaphor of a global crisis]" Photo by: Mulia/Flickr) On December 18, 2009 ended the Copenhagen conference which marks a turning point regarding the international economic relations and leave a big question ...

Interview with Roger Ballen

17/12/2009 - By Rasha Kahil Roger Ballen's new series of photographs "Boarding House", also published as a book by Taschen, are haunting images exploring the complex psychological world of the human psyche. (Photo: Concealed, 2003/Roger ...

Between civil rights and denied rights: to be women in Turkey

16/12/2009 - (Photo by: Agnese Cossa-onceiwasmyself/Flickr) On 14th October 2009 has been presented in Brussels the 2009 Report prepared by the European Commission for the Enlargement Strategy: although the document is moderately positive ...

World hunger: responsibility and passiveness of the West

15/12/2009 - (Photo di: Aravinda Rathnayake/Flickr) Article by Federico Guerrieri, translation by writtenwordtranslations The World Summit on Food Security, organised by the FAO, took place in Rome on 15 November. The figures for the current ...

Towards a Citizens' Europe? Event review LSE, 14th December 2009

15/12/2009 - European Alternatives aims both to bring debate about Europe to London, and to promote discussion and debate around European citizenship. With this aim in mind, we teamed up with the European Commission, the NCVO, and the LSE ...

Is the end of the masculine domination in Europe approaching?

14/12/2009 - By Ségolène Pruvot (Photos: La domination masculine/Elzèvir Film) The masculine domination is the title of a book by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu published in 1998, in which he describes how discrimination is ...

Poverty and Social Exclusion: a Question of Democracy

14/12/2009 - (Photo:from "Vietato vietare"-unai pasqual/Flickr) Poverty must increasingly be understood as a problem of democracy as well as equality. Only in that way can the most paralysing effects of capitalism be understood as problems of ...

Althusius's Societal Federalism: A model for the EU?

12/12/2009 - [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Johannes Althusius, engraving by Jean-Jacques Boissard"][/caption] Many supporters of the European integration strongly believe in a kind of federalism that would be closer to ...

European Multinationals Under Judgement

11/12/2009 - (Photo: Sharpeshift/Flickr) A series of verdicts by the Permanent Tribunal of the People, culminating in a hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels in November 2009, finds several European multinationals guilty of human, ...

European Alternative in Rio de Janeiro - Monday 14th December

11/12/2009 - European Alternatives begins a programme of increased collaboration with Latin American partners, particularly focussed on the emancipatory potential of regional integration and the social role of artists, with this conference at ...

Interview with Seyla Benhabib

10/12/2009 - (Photo: bradleykurtz / Flickr) By Giuliano Battiston Seyla Benhabib is a professor of political science and philosophy at Yale, and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary ...

Interview with Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson

09/12/2009 - (Photo: Caregivers 2008) By Emanuele Guidi Cosmopolitan artists Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson discuss their latest works engaging with migration, challenging national identity and delving into the secretive world of ...

New January Issue Published

09/12/2009 - We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of our printed magazine, Europa. This issue features a special focus on three key political questions of our time - poverty, global justice, and the environment - as well ...

Copenhagen Climate Summit: Day 1-2

09/12/2009 - Articolo di Federico Guerrieri. Photo by Marc Kjerland Welcome to Copenhagen! The UN Conference on Climate Change has started yesterday (7th of December 2009) in the Danish capital. As we have already underlined in other articles, ...

Human rights in China: a still open discussion

08/12/2009 - ("Contraddizioni". Photo by Valeria Venturini) "Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world". (Napoleon) EU-China's relationship hold an important role in global affairs and international relations particularly ...

Towards a Citizens' Europe? Dec 14th, 4pm, London

08/12/2009 - (Photo: Tochis/Flickr) 14th December, 4-6pm, London School of Economics, Room H216, London This debate is one of the first opportunities for citizens, civil society groups and academics to feed into the Commission's thinking on ...

Europe: is it Catholic? Well, it sure is anti-Islamic

08/12/2009 - (Photo: Giacomo Rosso) The Author is member of Europa451 Translation by Valentina La Gatta On Sunday 29 November 2009 the citizens of Switzerland voted on a referendum to ban the construction of minarets. More than 57% of voters ...

Berlin Local Group Members meeting - Dec 9 - 4pm, and 8pm

07/12/2009 - European Alternatives has started organising regulars general assemblies and meetings for its members, in an attempt to democratise the running of the organisation and involve a larger number of people in the conceptualisation of ...

Which future for Roma community in Italy?

06/12/2009 - ("The Age of Innocence". Photo by: Phederì sur les plaines/Flickr) "When we arrest Roma, we receive the ovation from the politicians; When we arrest politicians we are unfair". (Luigi De Magistris) Grows up concern around the ...

Climate change is not about the environment. It is about justice

04/12/2009 - (Photo by Leo/Flilckr) By Janine Schall-Emden and Lorenzo Fioramonti (Global Reboot) Related: Does Carbon Trading work? The current development model, based on the dogma of infinite economic growth, is deeply unsustainable and ...

Climate Change: Does Carbon Trading Work?

04/12/2009 - (Photo: Adam Polselli/Flickr) There are many discordant voices on how best to tackle climate change and reach a globally just agreement. Here we begin a series of confrontations by looking at the question of the carbon trading ...

Unveiling carbon trade

04/12/2009 - (Photo: Adam Polselli/Flickr) by Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson “Billions wasted on UN climate programme.” “Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved.” “UN effort to curtail emissions in turmoil.” Behind ...

The Roma and Sinti Minority in Italy: A Violation of Fundamental Rights?

03/12/2009 - Soon after the political elections that took place in Italy in April 2008 were won by the Coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi, a growing number of people became aware of the measures against the Roma minority the new Italian ...

Project Launch: European Democracy

01/12/2009 - Introduction: EU Democracy: what are the next steps? Adam Harrison and Véronique Foulon [caption id="attachment_3418" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="(Photo: European Parliament/flickr)"][/caption] On the 1st of December ...

The Green Deal: What's the deal for developing countries? EVENT REVIEW

01/12/2009 - Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. 30th November 2009. Even at planning stage there was great interest in this event from speakers and audience, and as such the panel and auditorium were both ...

1/3 of women in the EU commission = Gender equal Europe?

28/11/2009 - (Photo: Kenia/flick) by Ségolène Pruvot After the nomination of the commissionners, a satisfaction feeling may have filled European government leaders and the President of the future European Commission. At least this bad ...

Copenhagen: Europe in a Changing World

27/11/2009 - (Photo:Gilbert R./Flickr) Graciela Chichilnisky has contributed extensively to the Kyoto Protocol process, creating and designing the carbon market that has become international law in 2005. She is currently professor of ...

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency: An Improvement in the EU’s Fundamental Rights Regime?

27/11/2009 - On 1 March 2007 a new agency of the European Union began its work in Vienna. The European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) replaced the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. The difference between the two ...

New Membership Structure of European Alternatives

25/11/2009 - (Photo: Philippe Leroyer / Flickr) European Alternatives is launching a new membership campaign. We like to think of ourselves as a community of activists, and lately we have been thinking hard about how democratise the ...

Minority Rights Protection in the EU: Contradictions and Problems

23/11/2009 - (Breton Girls; finofilka/flickr) The European Union started being more active in the field of minority protection at the beginning of the 1990s, but still does not have a strong acquis with regard to these issues. The Treaties do ...

Bridging the democratic gap?

22/11/2009 - (Photo by Theresa Thompson/Flickr) By Colin Rowlands A somewhat overlooked part of the Lisbon Treaty (which has recently squeezed its way past Irish voters and the Czech constitutional court) is the European citizens’ ...

Saskia Sassen: Membership and Its Politics

22/11/2009 - When the outsider expands the formal rights of citizens. Saskia Sassen The growth of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe is renationalizing membership politics. While ideologically strong, this renationalizing of membership is ...

Sandro Mezzadra: The Labyrinth of Contemporary Migrations

22/11/2009 - Sandro Mezzadra The categories of centre and periphery, of north and south, are increasingly unable to photograph contemporary economic, political, and cultural inderdependence. The transnational experience of contemporary ...

Kosovo, elections and returns

20/11/2009 - (Photo: Swifty / Flickr) by Vera Cavallin On November 15 Kosovo held its first elections since declaring independence from Serbia last year. The turnout was very low, not more than 45% of the population voted; many people, ...

Campaign for Democratic Presidents

19/11/2009 - (Photo: Brian Finifter/Flickr) Presidents Answerable to the People The European Union is entering a new era of more openness and greater power for the European Parliament, the only truly transnational elected body of the European ...

Campaign for a Gender Equal Europe

19/11/2009 - (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, USA/Wikimedia Commons) Gender Equality: Beyond the statistics, let’s create a democratic Europe! European Alternatives is committed to gender equality: it is a ...

Circular Migration and Development: Research Briefing

17/11/2009 - [caption id="attachment_2592" align="alignleft" width="201" caption="Photo: The Migration by Kevin Eddy"][/caption] European Alternatives has an ongoing research and campaigning interest in new models of migration policy for ...

Stealing Copenhagen from the world

16/11/2009 - [caption id="attachment_2550" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="(Image: Icarus by Francis Drake)"][/caption] The 20 or so leaders who met at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Singapore yesterday are just a ...

Berlin Event - December 9 - Are transnational political parties desirable in Europe today?

16/11/2009 - (Photo by: John Fera/Flickr) Is the creation of transnational political parties desirable in Europe today? Campaigns for European elections are nearly always held at the national level. Creating transnational lists may help to ...

Polis21: Migration, Exclusion, Democracy in the New City

15/11/2009 - The project is supported by the European Cultural Foundation POLIS21: CITY, NATIONALISM, MIGRATION The project develops over an opening event in London and three symposia in Athens, Zagreb and Belgrade on the changing nature of ...

Democratising the Commission

15/11/2009 - Work in progress!

Transnational Representation: European parties

15/11/2009 - Work in progress!

A Progressive European Migration Policy is Urgent

13/11/2009 - The absurdity and lethality of European national policies towards migration has once again risen towards public consciousness in recent weeks, without any indication that national politicians intend to do anything other than ...

London Event December 7: 1989 and the refoundation of Europe

12/11/2009 - The 'return to Europe' after 1989 marked a seismic change not only for Central and Eastern European countries (CEE), but also provoked a re-examination of the idea of 'Europe' and the future of the EU. This open, interactive event ...

Viva article 208! Europe and the developing world

12/11/2009 - (Photo: European Parliament / Flickr) by Judith Sargentini, MEP for the European Greens November 2009 is a historic month. With Vaclav Klaus, the last head of state has finally ratified the Lisbon Treaty. The Treaty, in effect as ...

POLIS 21 travels through Athens, Belgrade to Zagreb

11/11/2009 - (Photo: European Alternatives) After the launch event on the city and the transnational commons held in London on the 27th of October during the This Is Not a Gateway festival, the Polis 21 project continued last week-end in ...

Polis 21 / Video Screening Programme / Belgrade and Zagreb

11/11/2009 - (Photo: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Super Super!, 2003) by Emanuele Guidi, curator of the video program of Polis-21 The video screening presented within the context of the Polis 21 project, was conceived not as a parallel event to the ...

Is the EU the new coloniser?

10/11/2009 - (Photo: Rusty Stewart/Flickr) Article by Federico Guerrieri In a recent article on this website, Judith Sargentini, MEP for the European Greens, underlines that the Lisbon Treaty creates an opportunity to modernise European ...

London Event November 30: The Green Deal: What's the deal for developing countries?

10/11/2009 - School of Oriental and African Studies, Brunei Gallery Room B104, London Monday 30th November 2009, 5-7pm READ THE REPORT HERE DEBATE OVERVIEW This interactive, dynamic debate takes place in the context of rising concern about ...

European Alternatives Members' Meeting- Bologna, November 17

10/11/2009 - European Alternatives has started organising regulars general assemblies and meetings for its members, in an attempt to democratise the running of the organisation and involve a larger number of people in the conceptualisation of ...

The Fall of the Wall, the Rise of Imperialism

09/11/2009 - (photo by abhijeet.rane/flickr) by Federico Guerrieri When Mikhail Gorbachev was nominated General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, he introduced democratisation as a key element of his radical reform programme, ...

Where now for European Social Democracy? The Good Society Debate

04/11/2009 - (Photo: www.social-europe.eu) by Jon Cruddas and Andrea Nahles European social democracy needs a fresh start. In the wake of the most severe economic crisis in decades it became clear that social democrats have not paid enough ...

Climate Change: December feels cold in Copenhagen

04/11/2009 - (Photo: Oxfam international gallery/Flickr) by Federico Guerrieri Next December (7th to 15th), the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) will take place in Copenhagen. As the Kyoto protocol will terminate by the end of ...

The European Union should make up its mind on climate change aid to developing countries

03/11/2009 - (Foto: Carlo Nicora/Flickr) by Federico Guerrieri Last week the Union agreed to set aside up to 15 billion euros per year to facilitate a green transition in developing countries. However, the European Union has not a common view ...

Federalists in fresh attack on EU visa regime at European Congress

03/11/2009 - "Tear down this wall!" In accordance with the position they hold since several years, the Young European Federalists (JEF) have launched a new campaign to bring attention to the plight of non-EU Europeans when trying to travel. ...

Polis 21 - Events in Athens, Belgrade, Zagreb

02/11/2009 - POLIS21: CITY, NATIONALISM, MIGRATION The project develops over an opening event in London and three symposia in Athens, Zagreb and Belgrade on the changing nature of the city in the 21st century. The project is articulated over ...

Zagreb: Polis, Commons, Culture

02/11/2009 - Zagreb, November 11, Center for Independent Culture and Youth, Kneza Mislava 11, Zagreb European Alternatives in cooperation with "Exit Europe – New Geographies of Culture" presents POLIS, COMMONS, CULTURE The Zagreb appointment ...

Belgrade: Ethinicity and Publicity – Is the polis necessarily a bordered space?

02/11/2009 - Belgrade, November 9th, Centre for Cultural Decontamination Belgrade, 8pm The appointment in Belgrade preceeds and connects with the symposium in Zagreb. Many of the Belgrade participants will hop on a train the day after the ...

Denis Guenoun: Europe and her idea

01/11/2009 - Denis Guénoun The idea of Europe can only be the universal, which itself is a negation of all European ‘particularity’. In this apparent paradox contemporary Europe can find its historic mission as a transnational force in a ...

Berlin Europa Presentation - November 5

30/10/2009 - Discussion and Magazine Presentation Globalisation, Democracy, Transnationalism b_book, Lübbener Straße 14, Berlin; 9pm, Thursday November 5th with Niccolo Milanese (European Alternatives), Bertram Keller (Polar Magazine), ...

Athens: Between Filoxenia and Xenophobia

28/10/2009 - POLIS21 – ATHENS BETWEEN FILOXENIA AND XENOPHOBIA Firday 6th November afternoon, Monastiraki Square - Public exhibition and artistic intervention Saturday 7th November, Byzantine and Christian Museum - Symposium The recent ...

The return of the Pro-European?

28/10/2009 - By Adam Harrison At least one of the two top posts in post-Lisbon Europe looks set to go to a Brit. But what effect will this have on the pro-Europeanism in the UK? Does it still exist? Fashionable words come and go, but ...

Why Europe Matters

24/10/2009 - The last 6 months have shown both the anachronistic nature of the global status quo, and the lack of a political project that genuinely changes the logic of global politics. The European project, despite certain appearances, has ...

Europe divided over financing climate change action in developing countries

22/10/2009 - Le Monde and the EU Observer dated this week report on the latest meeting of EU finance ministers on the issue of paying for adaptation actions to tackle climate change in developing countries. This question is likely to be ...

Dismaying Vote in the European Parliament on Media Freedon in Italy

22/10/2009 - By Damien Routisseau-Magrou (Photo: The Economist) The European Parliament today rejected calls to condemn infringements to media freedoms in Italy by an extremely narrow margin: the joint resolution presented by GUE/NGL, ALDE, ...

London Event: The City and the Commons

13/10/2009 - The City and the Common Sunday 25 October, 2:30-3:30pm Part of This is Not a Gateway Festival Main Hall of the Kobi Nazrul Centre on Hanbury Street Free Entrance The event introduces crucial themes from the project Polis 21, a ...

Globalisation demands a more political and more democratic Europe

13/10/2009 - (Photo: TPCOM/Flickr) Only by embracing a European dimension will national political parties be able to regenerate in the era of globalization. By John Palmer. As it crosses the largely unchartered seas of globalisation, the ...

Athens Event: Migration & the City

10/10/2009 - Salon discussion Polis 21: Migration & the City Futura editions space, 15 Victor Hugo Street, Metro Metaxourgio Saturday 17th October 2009 - 11: 00 am The changing nature of the city in the 21st century and the phenomena of ...

London Event: Europa Magazine Launch

10/10/2009 - Launch of Europa Magazine October 20th, Institut Francais, 7.30pm Join us for the launch of the latest issue of The Myth of Europa, the print journal of European Alternatives presenting a transnational approach to politics and ...

Paris Event: Transnational Feminism

07/10/2009 - Fight against gender inequalities today: Which type of transnational actions in Europe ? 17th October, 17.30 Café le Mistral, 7 rue Marivaux, 75002 Paris (M: Opera) The salon follows the Paris demonstration on women's rights, ...

Thoughts on the Future of a Transnational Left

05/10/2009 - A coherent European left must move beyond three false dilemmas and propose a positive alternative By Michal Sutowski, Krytyka Polityczna Translated from Polish by Karolina Walęcik The European left has been in a state of crisis ...

Press Conference with Daniel Cohn-Bendit

05/10/2009 - Brussels Press Conference with Daniel Cohn-Bendit: The State of the Media in Italy European Parliament Press Room Wednesday 7th of October, 2PM European Alternatives has co-organed a Press Conference in Brussels together with ...

Greek elections 2009: Let’s move forward to the past!

05/10/2009 - Yesterday, 4th of October, general elections were held in Greece. Despite only one out of every three Greeks rejecting their right to vote, the politicians claimed that the Greek people have spoken. New Democracy, the former ...

European Parliament Agrees to Debate Media Situation on October 8

04/10/2009 - FOLLOWING THE SUPPORT OF SEVERAL MEPs TO THE EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN FOR MEDIA FREEDOM IN ITALY, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECIDES TO DISCUSS THE STATE OF MEDIA FREEDOM IN ITALY ON THE 8th OF OCTOBER. The civil society organization ...

A New Social Democracy for Europe

04/10/2009 - Social Democracy after the Financial Crisis The financial crisis gives an opportunity to define a new society in Europe. A new European socialism will be based on freedom, economic security, equality and democracy. Stefan ...

Rationale and Case for transnational feminist action in Europe

03/10/2009 - It’s coming up again: the word feminism is getting back to use! Yesterday (Sept 2nd) in Paris, the floor of one of the main ‘institutional elite universities’ (Sciences-Po Paris) has been taken by feminists for 2.30 hours of ...

Letters of MEPs in support of Media Freedom Campaign

29/09/2009 - As part of our campaign to convince the European Parliament to take a position on the risk of a violation to media freedom and pluralism in Italy, we have published an open letter of MEPs in leading European newspapers, including ...

German Muslims and the changing election rhetoric

25/09/2009 - This weekend, German Muslims go out to cast their vote in the federal elections. More than a million out of four million are entitled to vote. While the conservative, small entrepreneur profile of many Muslims voters of Turkish ...

If Odysseus was alive today, he would end up in an asylum camp

24/09/2009 - I am from Athens, Greece. I am 24 years of old. I grew up with a nanny from Philippines. During my adolescence I played at school with Albanian immigrant kids and now I have my car windscreen cleaned on the streets by immigrants ...

Landtag’s election far-right campaign placard in Upper Austria

23/09/2009 - The Landtag elections of the Upper Austria constitutive federal state in Austria are to take place on Sunday the 27th of September 2009. A Landtag is a unicameral legislature for a constitutive federal state, while Austria’s ...

E-Tribal Workshop

23/09/2009 - Gustav Klimt, Tod und Leben (Death and Life), 1911/15 European Alternatives is involved in an artistic/research project which aims to explore the thought-provoking potential of understanding post-national features of the ...

MEPs Join Campaign for Free Media in Italy

17/09/2009 - MEPs JOIN CAMPAIGN FOR EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO CONDEMN INTIMIDATION OF THE PRESS AND DEFEND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION IN ITALY European Alternatives is campaigning for the European Parliament to pass a resolution in plenary condemning ...

The Role of Art in Imagining Multicultural Communities

10/09/2009 - Nikos Papastergiadis The political significance of art increasingly lies in promotion of a democratic dialogue between different people that can relate local experiences to global processes There are now two paradigms that are ...

The Politics of Knowledge Production

10/09/2009 - Brian Holmes With the pervasive trend towards the commodification of knowledge under intellectual property law, what is being challenged is the very ideal of the educational-cultural sphere as the locus of mutual understanding in ...

The "Italian anomaly" and a dangerous precedent

10/09/2009 - Editorial October 2009 European Alternatives launches European Campaign for Press Freedom in Italy see www.freepresseurope.eu www.stampalibera.eu Over the last few weeks great relevance has been given by the European press to the ...

Reform of European Democracy

10/09/2009 - The issue of the electoral system Jo Leinen Transnational electoral lists and personalisation of European politics are required to involve citizens in a genuinely transnational European polis based on the values of solidarity, ...

Citizenship: Prize or Practice?

10/09/2009 - Umut Erel By explicitly enshrining the earned nature of citizenship, the government implicitly regulates and calls to order existing citizens. The experience of migrant women from Turkey offers an alternative. The British Home ...

Press Release: Launch of Campaign

09/09/2009 - Launch of Campaign for a European Parliament Condemnation of Press Intimidation in Italy Lack of a European response to the intimidation of the press in Italy poses a direct threat to the right of liberty of expression throughout ...

“The Europe I believe in” - JM Barroso’s political guidelines for the next commission

09/09/2009 - On the 3 of September, Jose Manuel Barroso has presented its political guidelines for the next commission, which describe his ambitions for the European Union for the next five years and his vision for Europe. They will be ...

Turkey is described as a strategic asset for Europe

08/09/2009 - Europe's desire to play the role of a great power might miss the opportunities that Turkey's application to access to the EU is providing her with: An intermediary for its influence with the Muslim world, a strengthened ability in ...

A quarter of the Irish people undecided about the Lisbon Treaty

05/09/2009 - In Le Monde, Marion Van Renterghem notices that in the final straight, the Lisbon Treaty is not safe from a deadly fall. By a strange irony of fate, the treaty, which is aimed to make the EU more effective and must be ratified by ...

Crisis is the last chance for Europe

02/09/2009 - A column in Le Monde, written by Laurence Boone and Raoul Salomon, complains about the lack of coordination at the European level during the crisis and warns against worrying divergences in managing the after-crisis, notably in ...

A busy schedule for Europe this year

01/09/2009 - In Coulisses de Bruxelles, UE, Jean Quatremer recapitulates the programme of the coming European year: Preparation of the G20, potential extraordinary European summit on the 17th of September, Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty ...

Theses for an Alter-Globalising Europe

22/08/2009 - By Etienne Balibar Translation by Anna Preger 1. Now, more than ever before, politics, as Max Weber put it, can only be “global”. This does not mean that there is only one global politics possible: on the contrary there is ...

Turkey and Europe: Half a Century in the Waiting Room

06/08/2009 - Turkey applied for associate membership of the European Economic Community in 1959, when this only counted the six founders (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands). Half a century in the waiting room and ...

"We have contributed to the European cultural legacy"

01/08/2009 - In an interview featured in Le Monde, Össur Skarphedinson, Icelandic Foreign minister, answers criticism about the cynical use of the EU that Iceland, a 320.000-inhabitant island, is reproached for in this period of international ...

A minority government to be in charge of Bulgaria

28/07/2009 - Bulgarian parliament invested the new government with powers on Monday the 27th of July. In 2008, EU has suspended or canceled several hundred million euros of funds on the ground of frauds. Brussels is requiring a better running ...

European assignment in Georgia has been extended

28/07/2009 - Foreign ministers of the EU decided a one-year extension of the observation assignment aiming to maintain the ceasefire agreements in Georgia, which started in October 2008 in the following of the war regarding the separatist ...

Iceland's application for accession to the EU

28/07/2009 - Foreign ministers of the European Union transmitted to the European Commission the application of Iceland to join the EU on Monday the 27th of July. As Iceland is being part of the European Economic Area and has signed the ...

EU urges Turkey to fight against illegal immigration

27/07/2009 - "Turkey does not want to become the biggest refugee camp in the world" said the Turkish minister for European Affairs, Egemen Bagis, as Turkey is facing steady pressures emanating from Greece and the EU according to which Turkey ...

Michel Barnier is a bad choice for the portfolio of the Single European Market

27/07/2009 - French government is spending a lot of diplomatic energy to secure Michel Barnier as the EU commissioner for the single market in a possible future team led by Barroso. The position is one of the most strategic ones within the ...

British Tories caught in the trap of Euroscepticism

24/07/2009 - The first steps of the new Eurosceptic group in the European Parliament have been chaotic to say the least. Initially meant to be led by a British Tory, Geoffrey Van Orden or Timothy Kirkhope, the Pole Michal Kaminski finally took ...

A bridge towards the Pacific

24/07/2009 - The war of the Pacific broke out in 1879 when Chile assaulted the Bolivian harbour of Antofagasta. Straight away Peru, which was bound by a treaty to La Paz went to war. Chile wanted to extend its territory in order to help itself ...

Closer to the EU? Civilian control of the military in Turkey

21/07/2009 - On 8 July, Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a law giving civilian courts the power to prosecute military personnel who might threaten national security. He insisted on the relevance of this legislation as an essential part ...

European socialists ready to vote for Barroso in September according to Jean Quatremer

15/07/2009 - On his blog Coulisses de Bruxelles, UE, in a post dated 14th, Jean Quatremer points to the Socialist Group who fought against Barroso's re-election on the next 16th of July 2009 in the newly elected European Parliament. Socialists ...

Election of the Pole Jerzy Buzek as president of the European Parliament came as no surprise to anyone

14/07/2009 - In "Coulisses de Bruxelles, UE", Jean Quatremer, reports that Jerzy Buzek has been elected president of the European Parliament in the first round with 555 out of 644 votes and 713 present out of 736 MEPs. It is probably an ...

Re-opening of the Halki Seminary: a step forward for minority rights?

12/07/2009 - Several days ago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seemed to hint that the Orthodox Theological Seminary of Halki (Heybeliada in Turkish) may be re-opened in the near future. This issue has received international ...

France without the land and the dead

12/07/2009 - In a column in Le Monde, Marcel Detienne argues about notions of French national identity and the concept of autochton or native as meaning "born from the land itself". National identity and the concept of being an autochton have ...

Worries about the future of the EU

10/07/2009 - With a simple and rather modest understanding of how things are supposed to work when acknowledging the inseparable link that exist between political decision-making and the economy and vice versa, recent orientations of decisions ...

European member states will have to show solidarity faced with influxes of migrants on their doorsteps

09/07/2009 - As the beginning of a programme to "internally distribute refugees" between European member states, which will soon be promoted by the European Commission, France is about to welcome a hundred or so refugees from the Horn of ...

European voters decided the continuation of the crisis

07/07/2009 - In a column in Le Monde, Michel Rocard, former French Prime Minister from 1988 to 1991, explains how within the three last decades, capitalism transformed itself and underwent an internal revolution, which became apparent in ...

Europe is experiencing a serious drift as regards democracy

07/07/2009 - In a chat online on http://www.lemonde.fr, Bertrand Badie, researcher at the Centre for International Studies and Research in Science-Po Paris, focuss on the current condition of democracy in the world. He stresses the fact that ...

China Summer Workshop

03/07/2009 - ARTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS IN CHINA AND EUROPE: THE NATION, GLOBALISATION, AND PUBLIC SPACE 欧洲与中国的艺术家、学者：民族、全球化和公共空间 We organise a yearly workshop in Beijing in the context of the ...

Europe is frightened

29/06/2009 - Ana Carbajosa Foreign Policy - June/July 2009 In an article of the Spanish edition of the magazine Foreign Policy, the journalist Ana Carbajosa, analyses an increasingly widespread feeling throughout Europe: fear. Globalisation, ...

Delors-Gauchet: How to enchant Europe again?

27/06/2009 - To consider a future for the European Union project, there is a need for making it desirable again and to enchant it again. How to achieve such a goal? Some of the reactions to the presentation of the dialog convey some ...

Sarko: Saviour of Women

25/06/2009 - Earlier this week, the “Sun President” of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, addressed both House of the French Parliament at Versailles, the first time in 161 years that a French president has done so. One prominent pronouncement was ...

Copywrong?

25/06/2009 - Last week the British government published its “Digital Britain” report on the future of communications in the UK. One of the many outcomes of the report is to improve enforcement procedures against internet piracy. This ...

Europe must join in the group of continent-states

19/06/2009 - On the 19th of June, Valéry Giscard D'Estaing, retired president of the French republic, writes a column published in Le Monde. The current heads of state of the European Union member states must take into account the warning ...

We must clarify France's cultural message

17/06/2009 - In Libération, Julia Kristeva writes a column on France and Europe. She explains that in an area like Europe where spoken languages outnumber the countries, France delays joining the move of multilingualism which is the core of ...

A cynical agenda for more of the same: Barroso's letter to the Council

17/06/2009 - In an unprecedented move Jose Barroso has written a letter to the members of the European Council of member states laying out his agenda if he is to be re-elected as Commission President. The letter, addressed to the current Czech ...

Open letter of Iranian Artists in Exile

16/06/2009 - A group called Iranian Artists in Exile have released videos in several language versions of an open letter to the world calling for solidarity with the Iranian people. Here are the French and English versions for the interest of ...

The economic crisis aggravates human rights violations

15/06/2009 - On March 1st, 2009 three principal European human rights organizations issued a common declaration stating that the context of economic crisis aggravates racist and xenophobic behaviour all over Europe. The European Union Agency ...

Educating Saudi Women

15/06/2009 - When I mention to family, friends and acquaintances that I have been in Saudi Arabia twice this year, I never fail to see the shock on their faces. As an active feminist, it is about the last place many would expect me to go. In ...

Call for Researchers!

15/06/2009 - European Alternatives is launching an ongoing program of research into issues of crucial importance for the emergence of a transnational politics. The research programs will produce output of various forms, including printed ...

Let's change politics from a system of ownership to a system of freeware

15/06/2009 - In a column in Le Monde, the Green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit, wants to address the question of arrangements being made between political parties following the success of Europe Écologie in the European parliamentary elections in ...

"Pro-European France is distrustful of its political community"

14/06/2009 - In his blog "Behind the Scenes of Brussels, EU", Jean Quatremer, journalist at Libération, says that French Eurosceptics and Europhobics are trying to annex those who abstained after their failure in the European parliamentary ...

Dominique Reynié: 'Europe is taking root to the right'

12/06/2009 - Dominique Reynié, political expert says in an interview for Le Monde that Europe is taking root to the right because the financial crisis made European owners fearful and wanting to protect their interests which the right is more ...

Egemen Bagis: 'Turkey will be fully in the EU or not at all'

12/06/2009 - In Le Monde, the Turkish young state minister and chief negotiator with the EU comments the election results in term of what they could mean for Turkey's accession to the EU and then explains that some of the European political ...

"José Manuel Barroso will have to clarify his programme"

12/06/2009 - With respect to José Manuel Barroso's renewal to his office as president of the Commission, it is advisable to keep cautious as Mr. Barroso is facing strong oppositions in the European Parliament from right and extreme left ...

Father of Europe?

12/06/2009 - The Charlemagne column of this week's Economist argues that the weak turn out in the European elections suggests that "perhaps the European Parliament is not up to the job...Maybe something different is needed, such as a bigger ...

“Europe in their hands”

12/06/2009 - Editorial article El Pais - 09/06/2009 In this article, the authors argue how the conservatives should not forget the achievements of the European Union by moving away from scepticism. In these elections most Europeans have ...

“The united Europe is at risk”

12/06/2009 - Interview to Giovanni di Lorenzo by Andrea Zoppolato Cafebabel - 05/06/2009 In this interview, Giovanni di Lorenzo, director of the German journal Die Zeit, states that the values that made possible the European Union are today ...

“The socialist defeat opens a new chapter for the European project”

11/06/2009 - by Andreu Misse El Pais - 09/06/2009 In this article, the El Pais correspondent in Brussels explains how the support to left parties has followed the downward trend of voter participation in European elections. The humiliating ...

“The ultras are coming!”

11/06/2009 - by Ricardo Martinez de Rituerto El Pais - 09/06/2009 In this article, the author points out that a fifth of the MEPs of the new Parliament are “ultras” and their heterogeneity will make difficult to create a parliamentary ...

"What the voter does not want"

10/06/2009 - Was der Wähler nicht will (What the voter does not want) Der Spiegel Online - 09/06/09 In his provocative article published in Der Spiegel on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009, Henryk M. Broder outlines a severe opinion about the ...

"Just keep it up, Europe!"

10/06/2009 - Nur weiter so, Europa! (Just keep it up, Europe!) Die Zeit - 08/06/2009 In his article published on Monday, June 8th, 2009, Joachim Fritz-Vannahme refutes the idea that the last European elections enhanced Europe’s ...

A reading of the European Election Results in France

10/06/2009 - ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN ELECTION RESULTS IN FRANCE European Elections June 2009 by Ségolène Pruvot The first striking point of the European elections is the low participation: only 40% of French voters went to the voting booths ...

Exactly who wants Verhofstadt for President?

10/06/2009 - European Alternatives expressed regret in the run up to the European Elections that there was only one declared candidate for the post of the President of the European Commission: the incumbent Jose Manuel Barroso, supported by ...

Deeply European young French people who did not vote

09/06/2009 - Surveys show that young French voters did not participate in the poll. They perceive Europe as a space of liberty rather than as a political one and do not see why they would vote for something that apparently already exists while ...

"The Double Crisis"

09/06/2009 - by Sarah Schröder Die doppelte Krise (The double crisis) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – 08/06/09 In his article published on Monday, June 8th, 2009, Majid Sattar argues that the actual winners of the European elections are ...

A thought on democracy, European elections and EU institutions

09/06/2009 - Until now, European democracy has been institutionally thought and organised as a regime of competitive party democracy. Simon Hix says that 'democracy only really exists if there is a choice between competing policies and ...

Press Review Germany 25 May- 5th June

08/06/2009 - by Sarah Schröder Kleinstparteien für Europa –„Naturmedizin für alle!“ - Torben Waleczek (Small parties for Europe – Natural medicine for all!) Der Spiegel Online 04/06/09 On Thursday, June 4th, 2009, Torben Waleczek ...

Press Review Spain 1st - 7th June

07/06/2009 - by Belén Góngora Martínez Spain will elect its 50 MEPs in today’s elections. This last week of election campaign has been as disappointing as the previous one. 15 days of election campaign where the almost complete absence of ...

Global Art at the Margins of Empire

05/06/2009 - For an alternative artistic approach between an ephemeral global village and a reactionary appeal to tradition. Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay The emergence of art as a global institution (backed by a global art market) as one of the ...

Photojournalism: Stallabrass, Chanarin and Broomberg in Conversation

05/06/2009 - A conversation on the position of the photographer in situations of conflict, between the impossibility to represent war and the risk of collusion. Julian Stallabrass JS: You have presented us with some extraordinary objects in ...

French Press on Europe June 3rd

04/06/2009 - Articles from June 1st By Veronique Foulon Harlem Désir : "The Socialist Party is proposing a social orientation of the European construction" On the 28th of May in a chat with the readers of Libération, Harlem Désir, says that ...

The Status of Humans and the Sense of Work

03/06/2009 - Instead of speaking of a global humanitarian catastrophe, we should speak of political phenomena humans control. We need the terms of de-globalisation and de-democratisation. Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp* In the contemporary stage ...

For a Better World Beyond the Crisis

03/06/2009 - A crisis liberates the imagination. The uncertainty of the future allows for the emergence or real political alternatives Immanuel Wallerstein The real crisis is a structural crisis in the capitalist world economy. It began about ...

The Right to Movement and the Right to Development

03/06/2009 - Europe must recognise the unconditional right to visit of citizens of formerly colonised countries. At the same time, it must become the motor of a new transnational drive to development and poverty reduction. Gilbert Achcar The ...

French Press on Europe June 1st

02/06/2009 - Articles from June 1st By Veronique Foulon 'Ce que révèlent les affiches des élections européennes' About the European parliamentary elections posters and what they disclose On the 29th of May 2009, short comments on the ...

Yes 2 EU party in the UK

01/06/2009 - YES 2 EU party in the UK European Elections June 2009 The European elections 2009 sees the launch of a new political party in the UK, Yes 2 Europe. It distinguishes itself from other UK political parties in presenting three ...

European Elections in Spain

01/06/2009 - ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS IN SPAIN European Elections June 2009 The forthcoming European Elections running between the 4th and 7th of June are the largest ever elections taking place in a coordinated way across ...

Press Review Spain 25th - 30th May

01/06/2009 - by Belén Góngora Martínez Overview Most newspapers argue that the election campaign started with political demotivation and dissatisfaction. Moreover, the poor election campaign from political parties does not help to make ...

French press on Europe

31/05/2009 - Articles Selected between May 18 and May 27 By Veronique Foulon "Pour une relance démocratique de l'Europe, par José Bové et Daniel Cohn-Bendit" For the relaunch of a democratic Europe In Le Monde on the 29th of May 2009, José ...

Press Review France, 25th - 29th May

30/05/2009 - European Elections June 2009 PRESS REVIEW, FRANCE Week 25th-29th May by Véronique Foulon Le Monde ‘Pour un protectionnisme européen’ For a protectionist Europe On Wednesday the 27th of May 2009, Philippe de Villiers, one of ...

Full analysis European Elections in France

27/05/2009 - ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS IN FRANCE European Elections June 2009 by Véronique Foulon France European parliamentary elections are taking place on 7 June 2009. Out of 736 MEPs to be elected, French European ...

Commentary on European Left Manifesto

27/05/2009 - European Left Slogan: Together for Change in Europe! The European Left is a European Political Party which sits as part of the GUE/NGL grouping but has its own coherence. It was formed in 2004 in advance of the previous European ...

Commentary on European Greens Manifesto

27/05/2009 - European Green Slogan: A Green New Deal for Europe! The manifesto of the European Greens focuses on the need of a new direction for Europe by creating a new economic and social system based on stability, sufficiency and ...

European Elections Guide

27/05/2009 - GUIDE TO THE TRANSNATIONAL PARTIES RUNNING FOR THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS European Elections June 2009 The forthcoming European Elections running between the 4th and 7th of June are the largest ever elections taking place in a ...

Commentary on the ALDE manifesto

27/05/2009 - Manifesto of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats The ELDR manifesto is divided into four main points: civil liberties; EU Single Market, Growth and Employment; Environment and energy policy; and Enlargement, foreign, security ...

Commentary on the PES Manifesto

27/05/2009 - PES Slogan: People First, A New Direction for Europe The PES is committed to creating a fairer and safer society; relaunching the economy and preventing new financial crisis; tackling the climate change; promoting social justice ...

Commentary on the EPP Manifesto

27/05/2009 - EPP Slogan: Strong for the People The EPP’s electoral program is divided into five areas: economy and how to deal with the current crisis; climate change; the response to the challenge of demographic change; security (including ...

European Elections in France

23/05/2009 - ANALYSIS OF THE EUROPEAN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS IN FRANCE European Elections June 2009 The forthcoming European Elections running between the 4th and 7th of June are the largest ever elections taking place in a coordinated way across ...

European Elections in Denmark

23/05/2009 - The Parties running in the European Elections in Denmark European Elections June 2009 The forthcoming European Elections running between the 4th and 7th of June are the largest ever elections taking place in a coordinated way ...

London Festival of Europe Opens

23/04/2009 - The London Festival of Europe 2009 will run from 30th April to 10th May View the Festival web-page: http://www.festivalofeurope.eu One month before the European Elections in June, the London Festival of Europe 2009 brings to ...

Work with us

22/04/2009 - As we open our new offices, we have opportunities for two summer internships in London starting in May. Both involve about 2 working days per week, and are for the beginning unpaid. 1) Magazine Assistant Editor and Designer We are ...

Equality and European public space Paris 27th April

22/04/2009 - Equality and European public space Cosmopolitism and democracy 27th of April 2009 18.30-21.00 Sciences-Po Paris Salle François Gogel, 56 rue des Saint pères (entrance through 27 rue Saint Guillaume) PLEASE PRINT THIS PAGE FOR ...

Changeutopia! Paris 22nd April

11/04/2009 - 1989: La fin de l'histoire? Wednesday 22 April, Czech Cultural Centre, 18, rue Bonaparte 75 006 Paris 18.30-21.00, FREE ChangeUtopia! is a transnational series of public events touching on crucial themes for a new understanding of ...

City 2009: bringing down the walls

10/04/2009 - INVITATION TO THE PROCESSION On behalf of the London Festival of Europe and the theatrical project Locus Solus, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the Midnight Aesthetic Procession We are currently looking for ...

Interview with Rasheed Araeen

06/04/2009 - Rasheed Araeen is an artist and founding editor of the celebrated journal Third Text. In this interview he talks about the significance of globalisation for the arts, and the political significance of the artist. 1. Shifting ...

30th April - 10th May Full Programme Coming Soon!

03/04/2009 - London Festival of Europe 2009 : 30th April – 11th May ‘Now is the time for utopias’ One month before the European Elections in June, the London Festival of Europe 2009 brings to London a series of FREE public events and ...

ChangeUtopia! Berlin

28/03/2009 - CHANGEUTOPIA! BERLIN Art and Power in a Transnational World Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Saturday March 28th, 2-6pm FREE Participants: Gianni Vattimo (philosopher, former MEP), Boyan Manchev (College International de ...

ChangeUtopia! Bologna

27/03/2009 - The Migrant as Other / Migrazione e Esclusione Universita' di Bologna, Facolta' di Filosofia March 27th, 17 - 21 This debate on the significance of migration seeks to explore the complex and diverse interfaces of contemporary ...

ChangeUtopia! Warsaw

14/03/2009 - The private is political!’ Gender equality across borders In partnership with Krytyka Polityczna 2pm – 6pm, 21st March REDackcja “Krytyki Politycznej” ul. Chmielna 26 lok. 19 00-020 Warszawa tel (+48 22) 8281166 ...

Beyond the Contradictions of Global Capitalism

05/03/2009 - Financial crisis ? Systemic crisis ? With the financial collapse of September 2008 begins the development of a major systemic crisis. In order to understand the nature of this crisis, what is at stake, and from there to imagine ...

The Fable of Circular Migration As Process of Exclusion

04/03/2009 - The Fable of Circular Migration As Process of Exclusion Enrica Rigo Europe risks merging a high degree of mobility and flexibility with the immobility of the juridical and social status of migrant workers While I began to write ...

How is the EU responding to the greatest development challenge of the 21st century?

03/03/2009 - by Federico Guerrieri This is a synthesis of “Spotlight on Policy Coherence”, a 2009 report which is has been written by Concord Europe with the intention of forming the baseline for future analyses of the positive ...

Transnational Journalism

23/12/2008 - In December 1998 the European daily The European died a media death. The European was founded by the legendary (and notorious) British media magnate Robert Maxwell amid the euphoria that accompanied the tearing down of the Iron ...

Beyond homo economicus

20/12/2008 - Editorial, January 2009 The present global economic crisis, whatever its final place in the historical ranking of most dramatic economic crises that many seem fixated on trying to predict, has already brought about unprecedented ...

Daniele Archibugi: The Global Commonwealth

20/12/2008 - Daniele Archibugi has recently advocated a new cosmopolitan political framework. In this interview he lays out some of the key features of his project. Europa: The idea of a global government is an old idea with a long history. ...

On Movement: Sandro Mezzadra and the politics of Migration

20/12/2008 - By Nadja Stamselberg Reflecting on the notion of movement, which strategically crops up every time the multitude needs a definition, for instance when the concept of multitude needs to be detached from the false alternative ...

Reintroducing humanity to the world

20/12/2008 - Alfredo Jaar’s cosmopolitan challenge to institutionalised indifference By Paul Gilroy Europe’s modernity was made and maintained by violence. Its initial energy came from the conquest of people pronounced alien and inferior. ...

For a Cosmopolitan Alliance

20/12/2008 - Beyond tribal journalism, for a polyphony of minds. By Lorenzo Marsili Today a magazine can only be international in its composition and cosmopolitan in its emotion and desire. What must arise is a wayfarer, an eternal vagabond, ...

Interview with Alfredo Jaar

20/12/2008 - In his work Chilean-born, New York-based artist Alfredo Jaar explores the relationship between the “First” and the “Third Worlds”. How the two are materially interdependent and the former implicated in maintaining the ...

Interview with Sandro Mezzadra

20/12/2008 - Migrants are here to stay, and their number is bound to increase in the coming years: their practices and their struggles will play a key role in any attempt to imagine and build a “positive notion of European Citizenship”. ...

A puppet and his inevitable empire

19/12/2008 - Despite the possibility for a popular election, it looks likely there will only be one candidate for the post of President in the new European Commission named next year –the incumbent Barroso. Why? The answer is a mix of ...

Female Trouble

18/12/2008 - By Ségolène Pruvot Female trouble is the beginning of the title of an exhibition staged this summer at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Such a statement written in large font on top of the ticket desks of a large ...

ChangeUtopia! London

13/12/2008 - Date: 13th December 2008 When: 1pm-5pm, Saturday 13th December Where: Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Russell Square PROGRAMME 1 - 3pm: First Roundtable - Poverty in a Global World The ...

Putting the Social Back Into Europe

05/11/2008 - "If attitudes are to change, winning the political argument will not be enough without a cultural shift. This is where a supermodel, a former crack dealer and an androgynous goth come in. The model is Gisele Bündchen, a Brazilian ...

Jan Patocka and the Idea of Europe

29/10/2008 - On the 13th March 1977, the 70 year old Czech philosopher Jan Patočka died under a final police interrogation. One of the founders of Charter 77 along with Vaclav Havel - who later acknowledged the spiritual influence of Patočka ...

Artists and the Polis in Eastern Europe

29/10/2008 - November 7th, 2007 Romanian Cultural Institute What is the relation between artists and democratic citizenship? What role are cultural actors called to play in today's volatile social reality? The discussion if focussed on the ...

European Feminist Summit 2008

28/10/2008 - First European Feminist Summit – 15th March '08, London On the 15th of March, as part of the 2008 London Festival of Europe, we organised a European Feminist Summit in Hampstead Town Hall, London. Here is a brief report from the ...

Cultural Congress: Making Europe Dream

28/10/2008 - This congress brings to London writers, artists, musicians, philosophers, filmmakers and others to discuss the future of the arts in Europe and the meaning of engagement today. Venue: Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of the Arts, ...

Hungary Day: Revolutionary Poetry Reading

27/10/2008 - March 15th, 2008, Hungarian Cultural Centre 160 years ago the young poet Sándor Petőfi led the Hungarian Revolution. A poetry recital and a celebration featuring Fiona Sampson, István Kemény, Tamás ...

Europe Day: Etienne Balibar

26/10/2008 - May 9th, 2008, information coming soon A full day of events to mark Europe Day, including debates with prominent speakers, interactive and informative workshop on citizenship and democracy in Europe, and a public assembly. Europe ...

European Citizenship for European Citizens

25/10/2008 - November 21st, 2007, London School of Economics How to work for pan-European political engagement at the grassroots level? What is the meaning of European citizenship, and how can it speak to migrants? Including Simon Critchley ...

Towards a European Way of Life

24/10/2008 - March 6th, 2008, Chelsea College of Art Bernard Stiegler is a philosopher and director of the Centre for Cultural Development at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He delivers the opening lecture for the London Festival of Europe 2008

Slightly Smaller than Indiana

23/10/2008 - March 8th, 2008 An artistic road-movie through Portugal, asking whether the contemporary landscape is becoming unrecognisable, as if it were a postcard. Followed by a debate on contemporary Portugal with the Director.

Democracy in Europe at the 50th Anniversary of the European Parliament

23/10/2008 - March 9th, 2008, London School of Economics One year before European Parliamentary elections experts on the state of democracy come together for a key-note debate. With John Palmer, Brendan Donnelly, Maurice Fraser. Click here for ...

Students and Young People Summit

22/10/2008 - For a European Political Movement November 3rd, 2007, UCL A summit of young people and students from throughout Europe to reflect on methods and means of political engagement with the European reality. The summit will have an open ...

Human Rights and Europe

22/10/2008 - Human Rights and Democracy Democratic participation within the European Union, Human rights in home and foreign policy. The President of the European Commission should no longer be chosen behind closed doors in the European ...

North Africa and the Mediterranean

22/10/2008 - March 10th, 2008, Italian Cultural Institute An evening of poetry, music and discussion with artists from across the Mediterranean region to investigate whether there exists a Mediterranean cultural sphere. Including Casimiro de ...

Notes for a New Transnational Practice

17/10/2008 - Lorenzo Marsili There seems to be a fundamental paradox in the current dialectic of globalisation and the numerous public debates surrounding it. We are constantly reminded of the inescapable supranational interconnectedness of ...

LoveDifference Festival

20/09/2008 - LOVEDIFFERENCE! 8, 20, and 28 September, in London, Bristol, and Northampton LoveDifference! is a series of three one-day Festivals in London, Bristol, and Northampton taking place over the month of September. The events devoted ...

Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews Claudio Magris

17/08/2008 - Claudio Magris, author of many works of fiction, editorialist at Corriere della Sera and professor of German literature in Trieste meets Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director at the Serpentine Gallery. Hans Ulrich Obrist: My first question ...

Boyan Manchev: Seventeen Theses For a European Cultural Movement

17/08/2008 - A European Cultural Movement must open the way for new modes of life in Europe and act as an alternative to the market. Boyan Manchev is a philosopher and Vice President of the College International de Philosophie, Paris First ...

Achieving gender equality is an essential step in building an inclusive Europe

17/08/2008 - Gender equality in Europe is about more than statistics. It is about changing perceptions and stereotypes. This article follows the International Feminist Summit recently organised by European Alternatives in London. In its ...

When Europe Catches a Cold Italy is First to Sneeze

17/08/2008 - Stella Tang The recent Italian elections take the temperature of the current political dialectic in Europe. One marked by the emergence of a reactionary discourse of security, the crisis of the left, and the eradication of ...

For a Euro-Mediterranean Community

17/08/2008 - Nicholas Sarkozy is championing the project of a new Euro-Mediterranean Union. But the idea will only succeed provided we learn from our mistakes and raise our ambitions. There has been discussion recently about the possibility of ...

European Elections for a European President!

17/08/2008 - Speculation about who might be the first permanent President of the European Council manifests a desire for a European figurehead. If there is to be a European figurehead, we must insist that he or she be elected and publicly ...

Engagement and the Arts in Europe

17/08/2008 - As artists, writers, musicians and thinkers come to London for a Cultural Congress as part of the Festival of Europe, what is the relationship between the arts and engagement in Europe? Niccoló Milanese, Europa ...

Interview with Furio Colombo

17/08/2008 - Furio Colombo, currently Senator in the Italian Parliament, is former editor-in-chief of daily L’Unita, former Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, former correspondent for La Stampa and La Repubblica from ...

Where are all the European Feminists?

17/08/2008 - Every European government and institution is committed to equality, but yet discrimination remains. European Alternatives launches its Future of European Feminism Project. Ségolène Pruvot, Shandi Miller, Anna M ...

Europe, the UK and Catch 22 Democracy

17/08/2008 - Niccoló Milanese Europa, November 2007 Whilst the debate over the EU Reform Treaty grows ever more trivial, and each side makes appeals to ‘democracy’, democracy in Europe becomes ever deeper in crisis. What is ...

Europe and China: A Synphony of Civilisation

16/08/2008 - David Gosset is Director of the Academia Sinica Europaea, Shanghai It is the studio of an artist in the 17th-century Netherlands. In the foreground there are a tapestry, an empty chair and a table. A seated painter is trying to ...

Two Exhibitions to Scandalise Europeans: Fronteres and Apartheid

16/08/2008 - Lorenzo Marsili Fronteres (closed 30th of September) and Apartheid (until 13th of January) are two exhibitions co-organised (together with the Musée des Confluences) and currently hosted by the Centro de Cultura ...

A Letter from Poland:The Same Europe, the Other Hate?

10/08/2008 - Tomek Kitlinski & Pawel Leszkowicz “We’ll do to you what Hitler did to Jews!” shout counterdemonstrators at feminist and gay marchers in Poland. This country abjects Jews, women, and homosexuals. In the old ...

Interning in Germany: No legal framework and timid proposals from the left

30/11/1999 - Interns in Germany are increasingly protesting their “abuse” as cheap labour since they frequently receive poor or no allowances for their work. There are no legal regulations for interns in Germany (yet). In December ...

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