Guide for Contributing Editors and Bloggers

European Alternatives is always looking for individuals interested in collaborating with the organisation, either by writing for this website or the printed magazine, organising events, or helping out with the translation!

Our work interests you? You want to collaborate with us?

Regardless of your role, contributions to European Alternatives are activist in nature. They are well researched and well written, but they also attempt to draw propositive conclusions for positive action. The crucial questions for us on every subject are: what should political institutions do about it? what should citizens do about it? what should we do about it?

You want to write for us? Feel like sharing your thoughts and views to a large audience? We welcome interested people to become members of the organisation and write posts on a variety of themes of your choice, which you think might interest the many visitors of our website.
You will receive your own space on euroalter.com, and see your posts and writings relaunched throughout the website and through social networking tools. The best posts will be collected for publication on the print edition of Europa, our bimonthly magazine, and the most active and topical bloggers will be invited to become Contributing Editors to the publication.

Fancy getting started? All you need to do is email Alberto on a.stella [at] euroalter.com, with a short overview of your interests. You will be sent all information to start blogging to your heart’s content!

Organise an event: interested in organising an event on a theme that interests you, and that falls within our areas of work? Then get in touch by writing at editors [at] euroalter.com, with your ideas and a plan of action!

Translation: Speak more than one language? Help us assuring a fully multilingual website by contributing some time to translate the contents! If interested write to Alberto, on a.stella [at] euroalter.com

What themes?

We run a variety of projects and events, which broadly fall under the following categories of interest:

Transnational Democracy: Looking at European institutions and democracy in Europe, relations between social movements and European or transnational institutions, the role of the European parliament and transnational political parties, etc. Our prime interest in this category is to promote the idea of a Europe constructed through the political engagement of its citizens, and not in spite of them.

Equality: This section is dedicated to exploring what potential exists in transnational institutions (European Union, European and International Court of Justice, etc.) in promoting fairer and more equal societies. We are particularly interested in looking at the status of labour rights and trade unions in Europe, questions of gender equality and women’s rights, and civil rights.

Migration: Developing a just approach to migration is one of the most pressing questions for contemporary Europe. We are interested in looking at European migration policies, the status of the migrant and the risk of xenophobic responses, and the relation between migration and transnational citizenship.

Cosmopolitics: This section looks at the relation between Europe and the rest of the world. We are interested in looking at the effects of European trade policy and European environmental policy on developing countries, the ‘foreign policy’ actions of the European Union, and more generally the overcome of nationalism and the development of global channels of collaborations, such as the experience of the World Social Forum.