european politics

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Europe: Final Crisis?

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

Ecology, Interview »

Carlo Jaeger: For a climate alliance

In this interview Carlo Jaeger argues for a change of perspective in order to consider climate change in terms of its opportunities, although the problem of climate justice will not be solved automatically.

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Niqab: to be welcomed in the name of multiculturalism?

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.

Alter-globalisation, Article, Europa Magazine »

For a Europe open to the world

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.

Article, Audio, Democracy »

Transnational parties in Europe

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.

Cosmopolitics Events, Democracy Events »

Refiguring Citizenship: London Events from January 21

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?

Article, Arts, Europa Magazine, Global City, cultural diversity »

The post-national polis

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.

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Europe in the world: effects on Migration

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.

Alter-globalisation, Article »

‘Flopenhagen’: We must go beyond European weakness

Now that an agreement at the Copenhagen summit has not been found, will Europe be able to still lead the way and pass from word to fact? Or will we continue hiding behind our weaknesses?

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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 .