In recent months and years we have got used to witnessing attacks on Brussels, the city symbolizing the centre of the European Union that national leaders in government and opposition love to criticize for everything that goes wrong or is unpopular on the European continent. Today, though, 22 March 2016, it was not a metaphoric but a coordinated literal attack on the city of Brussels that dominated the headlines…
by Evangelos Areteos
We spent six days following refugees from Turkey to Idomeni, northern Greece, through Lesvos, Piraeus and Athens. What we lived and what we saw was a great lesson of humanity and strength but also a painful experience of suffering
On 7 March 2016, a meeting of the EU leaders and Turkey took place in Brussels with migration and the refugee crisis at the heart of the agenda. A plan in the making is the end result of this round of negotiations with Turkey…
A referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union is due to take place before the end of 2017. If there is agreement at the European Union Council on 18-19 February 2016 the referendum can take place as soon as June 2016.
By Mario Laborie Iglesias
Here is a look at the prospects and major challenges for the EU’s common security and defence in 2016.
New-comers could profit from an informative crash course on their hosts’ norms and values. But the question, “What does it mean to live in a multi-ethnic society, in a meta-nation?” is one that hosts themselves should not put the aside for too.
Do you suffer from terrible headaches caused by your democracy? Are you tired of different people speaking their minds openly and shamelessly and making you look bad?
Europe must send global cooperation signals – Four proposals
Who are the real “Europeans” today? The bureaucrats, officials and parliamentarians of the European institutions, in their somewhat isolated “Brussels bubble”? A few distinguished philosophers and other intellectuals who firmly reject nationalism?
It’s easy to dismiss the increasing drumroll of war in London and Berlin as the panic-fueled reaction of madmen who happen to be in power. Yet, the truth might be even more disturbing.