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| Resisting the Piper: Why Europe’s Coming Waterloo is Necessary
http://reconnecting-europe.boellblog.org/2016/12/15/resisting-the-piper-why-europes-coming-waterloo-is-necessary
Resisting the Piper: Why Europe’s Coming Waterloo is Necessary. CC-BY-NC Jay Pitsby (FLICKR). Resisting the Piper: Why Europe’s Coming Waterloo is Necessary. When the Right seeks to co-opt ideas of decency, fight them using moral language. Decency does not mean ‘traditional values’. It means finding ways to live together in a civilised manner, while helping the most vulnerable rather than scapegoating them. I have done this at hustings, and it works. Better that than death by ossification. Not in Party M...
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| Does the Trump Victory Take Us Back to 1985? (Brexit and EU Identity III)
http://reconnecting-europe.boellblog.org/2016/11/09/does-the-trump-victory-take-us-back-to-1985-brexit-and-eu-identity-iii
Does the Trump Victory Take Us Back to 1985? Brexit and EU Identity III). Does the Trump Victory Take Us Back to 1985? Brexit and EU Identity III). Looking back on it from 2026, Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 US Presidential election may just be seen as the thing that catalysed a deeper sense of EU identity. You read that right. Of course, it cannot yet be clear just how many of his campaign promises Trump will actually seek to deliver upon: will NAFTA be buried? If they do, will they win? There are ...
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| Is a Free InterRail Pass Enough to Make Young People Believe in the European Union?
http://reconnecting-europe.boellblog.org/2016/12/12/is-a-free-interrail-pass-enough-to-make-young-people-believe-in-the-european-union
Is a Free InterRail Pass Enough to Make Young People Believe in the European Union? CC-BY-NC-ND Juergen Uch (FLICKR). By Marta Paradés Martín. Is a Free InterRail Pass Enough to Make Young People Believe in the European Union? I have serious doubts in both respects. Are young people Europe’s hope? It is obvious that young Europeans today will be the generation in command in the near future which is why it is so important to pay attention to them. But, should the EU focus exclusively on them? It seems tha...
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| 2016, the Memorable Year We’d Rather Forget and the Unbearable Heaviness of 2017
http://reconnecting-europe.boellblog.org/2016/12/28/2016-the-memorable-year-wed-rather-forget-and-the-unbearable-heaviness-of-2017
2016, the Memorable Year We’d Rather Forget and the Unbearable Heaviness of 2017. BY-NC-ND WJ van den Eijkhof (FLICKR). By Marta Paradés Martín. 2016, the Memorable Year We’d Rather Forget and the Unbearable Heaviness of 2017. As December is the month to look back on the year and take stock of what happened, what can we say about 2016? In case Brexit becomes a reality. In Spain, we witness the failure of the relocation compromise: so far the Spanish government has only received 900 refugees out of the 17...
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| ‘Go Turkey’ II – The Vigilante Superheroes and the Migrant Riot in Harmanli
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8216;Go Turkey’ II The Vigilante Superheroes and the Migrant Riot in Harmanli. CC-BY-NC Photo Unit (FLICKR). 8216;Go Turkey’ II The Vigilante Superheroes and the Migrant Riot in Harmanli. Turkey. Go back. Back Turkey. Go. No Bulgaria for you. Go Turkey. Immediately.’ Back in April, Petar Nizamov. What happened in Harmanli? A few months after the vigilante squads story. In response to the riot, the UN Refugee Agency wrote a statement. The centre hosts 52% of the asylum seekers in Bulgaria. ‘Harmanli i...
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| Anna Pelova
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All articles by: Anna Pelova. Anna Pelova is a green activist from Bulgaria who is passionate about youth and European politics, tourism, gender equality, education and culture. She loves to write in different genres political pieces, travel tales and prose. Anna is the author of one novel, co-author of a guidebook about Bulgarian villages and a contributor to various Bulgarian and English language magazines. Frequent Elections and the Lesser Evil Syndrome. Frequent Elections and the Lesser Evil Syndrome.
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