Is there something happening in European defence?
By Mario Laborie Iglesias
Here is a look at the prospects and major challenges for the EU’s common security and defence in 2016.
Editorials
Meta-Nation for Dummies
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.
How to successfully convert your democratic country into a dictatorship
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?
Global crises, world views and crossroads
Europe must send global cooperation signals – Four proposals
Identities, migrations and Europe- a sometimes explosive relationship
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?
Bombing Ideas: Europe’s and ISIL’s Radical Solutions
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.
Change of government in Argentina- also relevant to Europeans
On 22 November the right-wing presidential candidate, Mauricio Macri, won the presidential elections in Argentina, at little distance from the government candidate from that always somewhat incomprehensible Peronist movement, located somewhere between popular and populist, left and right, democracy and authoritarianism, and tradition and progress.
Military Security and Human Security
This week’s downing of a Russian jet by Turkey near the Syrian border will complicate even more the mess surrounding Syria. Putin has called Turkey an “accomplice of terrorists”, and has denounced that the oil extracted by the Islamic State (ISIS), which is vital for its finances, is sold through Turkey.
Old Ukraine, New Ukraine
By Francisco de Borja Lasheras
When, like every Monday in the 1990s, the children at her school in Sambir, western Ukraine, sang the national anthem, Anna felt nothing. It was a cold ritual, directed towards an impersonal entity: the state, which did not evoke many positive emotions. Suspicion more like.
This is how Europe wants to integrate Muslim immigrants
By Gonzalo Toca
There are two conflicting views in the heart of Europe on the integration of foreigners and both of them affect Muslim immigrants in very different ways. The new policies will depend on which one of these prevails in the end.
