Forget about human rights in the Middle East and forget also about security issues: the reasonable doubts on embracing multiculturalist tenets concerning the French ban on the wearing of full Islamic covering in public spaces are to be traced elsewhere.

It is time for the EU to move away from its inegalitarian policies towards the countries of the South. A revived European left must come up with a plan for restructuring a profoundly unjust global economic system.

A candidate for the next presidency of the European Commission supported by all European socialists? That’s what the PES promised, but the latest European campaign underlined how difficult it is. Audio-interviews with MEPs.

In this series of events organised in partnership with the LSE Forum for European Philosophy we invite thought provokers thinkers and scholars to reflect on key questions concerning the status of citizenship, the relations between Europe and the rest of the world and the question of the status of the migrant to Europe. Can there be a genuinely transnational demos?

We need new collective symbols for the construction of new ways of being together, finally divorced from ethnic or national representation. Some thoughts about post-national polis with the opportunity of the Polis 21 event in Athens, Belgrade and Zagreb.

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.

The European rhetoric has flown very high at Copenhagen. Now that an agreement has not been found, will Europe be able to still lead the way and pass from word to fact? Is trade sanctions for polluting goods a solution? Or will we continue hiding behind our weaknesses?

Yemen, called the most architecturally fascinating country in the world, is extremely poor, since the only Saudi Arabia’s country without oil fields, with a weak central government and without the necessary resources to cope with the violent internal and external crysis: these reasons would make him a good breeding ground for the undisturbed proliferation of terrorist cells .

The global summit on climate change was not just an international conference on the world’s precarious environment. It was a catalyst of rivalries and reciprocal accusations, which gave momentum to a renewed synergy between Brazil, South Africa, India and China.

Over the last 18 months the EU has seen many growing pressures on its social services provision. The unemployment rate in the EU has been rising steadily since April 2008. What can the EU do?