July 30, 2018
The European Parliament’s lot is not a happy one: it’s expected to do the heavy democratic lifting for an institution that desperately needs to tackle its democratic deficit. But this Parliament is like no other. Seen by many European voters as either irrelevant or as just one governance level too many, the turnout for European… » read more
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July 20, 2018
Woman head-butted in racist attack on Glasgow to Paisley train BBC News 20 March Woman attacked on London Underground for speaking Spanish The Independent 13 April ‘No one flinched’: Woman describes racist attack on her and 11-year-old son on crowded train The Independent 26 April These incidents, all from the first half of… » read more
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C’est la tombe de mon grand-père à Vignemont, près de Compiègne. Il est mort il y a 100 ans, quelques mois avant la fin de la Première Guerre Mondiale en 1918. Qu’est-ce qu’il faisait en France ? En 1914, l’Allemagne a déclenché une guerre terrible contre la France, la Grande Bretagne et la… » read more
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January 31, 2017
Democracy and Public Space Debate about the European public sphere, the open space where news is disseminated and debated in the EU, can sometimes seem quite esoteric. Why then have academics and European politicians been so concerned about it? Because the concept is closely linked to some of the most burning questions about the EU,… » read more
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November 30, 2016
What does Brexit really mean? A good place to start is the question voters were asked on 23rd June: should the UK remain a member of the European Union or leave the EU? So at the very least we can say that Britain will at some point cease to be a member of the EU… » read more
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November 22, 2016
“In our dialogue with the European Commission, we have assumed that our cooperation will be based on such principles as objectivism, or respect for sovereignty, subsidiarity, and national identity. However, we have gradually come to realise that interferences into Poland’s internal affairs are not characterised by adherence to such principles. On top of that, such… » read more
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October 18, 2016
“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what the very word ‘citizenship’ means.” This is how Theresa May denounced cosmopolitanism in her first speech as Prime Minister to the Conservative Party conference. It’s a strange choice of words, when she could have stuck to… » read more
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September 21, 2016
Of course it’s all too late now, and it may not have mattered anyway. But a closer look at the way the EU referendum question was worded and at the layout of the ballot paper raises some interesting questions. First – the ‘Remain’ option is the more complicated of the two. The equivalent of “Remain… » read more
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Somebody compared Brexit to a dog who got onto a bus without having thought what to do next. This is a pretty accurate image of a country that is almost too stunned to ask the question “What now?”, unable to make up its mind what price is worth paying for this glorious day of… » read more
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September 5, 2016
We are now half-way through four years of First World War commemorations. Comparing how the Great War is remembered in Britain, France and Germany throws a revealing light on the basic differences in the relationships of these countries with the European Union. Seen in this context, Brexit is the clash between two conflicting narratives… » read more
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