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Europa Magazine, Featured, Interview »

Interview with Nancy Fraser

Nancy Fraser, celebrated critical theorist and feminist, discusses about the transnationalisation of the public sphere, radical justice and the crisis and pulling feminism back from neoliberalism.

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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.

Cosmopolitics »

Climate Change: Does Carbon Trading Work?

Climate change is not just an environmental issue – global warming affects social justice, poverty, and human rights. 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 scheme, a system set up by the Kyoto protocol to allow companies to buy, sell, and trade pollution certificates.

Cultural Diversity, Essay, Europa Magazine, Migration »

Saskia Sassen: Membership and Its Politics

The growth of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe is renationalizing membership politics. Citizenship has historically grown and expanded through the claim-making and the demands of the excluded: the outsider has indeed the potential to expand the formal rights of citizens.

Cultural Diversity, Essay, Europa Magazine, Migration »

Between Centre and Periphery: The Labyrinth of Contemporary Migrations

Sandro Mezzadra discusses the transnational experience of contemporary migrations, pointing to the necessity of a new interpretative paradigm in order to photograph the contemporary economic, political, and cultural inderdependences.

Migration Projects »

Circular Migration and Development: Research Briefing

Is circular migration a way a rethinking third country development and the status of the migrant? Only if it is interpreted in a radical way which goes beyond economic indicators. A European Alternatives Research briefing by Danai Vassilaki

Cosmopolitics, In brief »

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

The European Union agreed to set aside up to 15 billion euros per year to facilitate a green transition in developing countries. However, no agreement was reached on actually how to spend the money. The EU needs to stop bickering, stop prioritising the competitiveness of its companies, and stand up to its claims of global leadership on fighting climate change.

In brief, Migration »

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

This is a synthesis of “Spotlight on Policy Coherence”, a 2009 report which is has been written by Concord with the intention of forming the baseline for future analyses of the positive and negative impacts of (in)coherent EU policies on the ground.

Article, Democracy, Democracy, Europa Magazine »

Why Europe Matters
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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 the potential to introduce a paradigm shift to an era of transnationalism.

Article, Democracy, Democracy, Europa Magazine »

Globalisation demands a more political and more democratic Europe
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Only by embracing a European dimension will national political parties be able to regenerate in the era of globalization, argues John Palmer