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August 27, 2019
Guest post by Jana Hainsworth, secretary-general of Eurochild, a children’s rights advocacy network with almost 200 members across 34 countries. Ursula Von Der Leyen – a new name joins the cadres of the EU institutions as the President of the European Commission 2019-2024. What does the children’s rights sector expect from her and what can… » read more
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Tribune – Michel Thibault, consultant en stratégie de développement, ancien chargé de mission en collectivités territoriales, à savoir le Conseil Régional Provence Alpes Côtes d’Azur. Validée par le Conseil constitutionnel, la privatisation de Groupe ADP continue de défrayer la chronique et à faire monter au créneau des élus de tous bords. Le gouvernement n’a de… » read more
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NEW YORK / BRUSSELS – June, 2019 The One Free Press Coalition, a united group of pre-eminent editors and publishers using their global reach and social platforms to spotlight journalists under attack worldwide, today issued the fourth monthly “10 Most Urgent” list of journalists whose press freedoms are being suppressed or whose cases are seeking… » read more
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Guest post by Laurindo Alberto Pimentel Frias, from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Days after the European elections, and with the expected outcome – the consolidation of the Eurosceptic block and extremist movements or the “end” of bipartisanship – it is time to reflect on the challenges ahead in the next five years during which… » read more
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Guest blog post by Thomas Lockhart, a Danish marketer working at the digital agency nodes.dk, responsible for marketing activities and PR on the Danish market. The EU is one step closer to getting large tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple to give up their priceless algorithms for page- and product ranks on their platforms.… » read more
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Guest post by Mark Turnbull, Managing Director of AUSPEX International. With the insult of coming third in Peterborough last week adding to the injury of fifth place in the EU elections, the Conservative Party needs to coalesce quickly around a new leader – one who can heal the party’s historic divisions and set out a… » read more
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May 24, 2019
Guest post by Radu Dumitrescu, one of the Editors-in-Chief of The New Federalist. The resurgence of right-wing nationalism and hatred in Europe has been aptly met with condemnation from across the political spectrum, from conservatives and liberals to social democrats and greens. And yet, the centre-right and the Manfred Webers of the world have had… » read more
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Tribune – Michel Thibault, consultant en stratégie de développement, ancien chargé de mission en collectivités territoriales, à savoir le Conseil Régional Provence Alpes Côtes d’Azur. Les nuages sombres qui planent au-dessus de Paris et de Rome actuellement ne doivent pas faire oublier l’essentiel : dans de nombreux domaines, entreprises françaises et italiennes ont uni leur… » read more
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Guest post by Julian Oliver, Board Member of EURACTIV. For 30 years, I was ashamed to admit that I came from Belfast. On a lonely beach in Indonesia in the mid-1970s, when asked, I told a local that I came from Ireland. As quick as a flash he took a stick drew a rough outline… » read more
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March 26, 2019
Guest Blog post by Natalia Arno, President of the Free Russia Foundation As protests rage across Russia in response to a Kremlin-backed law to erect a digital Iron Curtain, authorities are preparing a “cyber-defence test” to shut down the Russian Internet – a step that may result in isolating the country from the rest of… » read more
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March 19, 2019
Guest blog post by Till Fischer, a student of law at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany), specialized in antitrust law and legal assistant within an international network of accountancy firms. France finds itself thrown into turmoil, indicating that Macrons policy has reached an impasse. The president of the rich must perform a U-turn over his way… » read more
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March 7, 2019
Guest blog post by Charalambos Tsekeris, a research fellow at the National Centre for Social Research (Athens, Greece), and Theodora Papaefthimiou, a lawyer specialised in Public Law. This short article maintains that, in times of structural and persistent crisis, Europe needs to tackle the multiple challenges and existential fears by cultivating a strong and dynamical… » read more
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January 18, 2019
Guest blog post by Peter Griffiths. As we rapidly approach the final days of the UK’s membership of the European Union, it is clear that our political representatives are no closer today, on how to achieve a separation, than they were the day the referendum result was given. As Brits we face uncertainty of action,… » read more
December 18, 2018
Guest blog post by Alastair Macphail, head of the Communication Department at the European Training Foundation (ETF). As we move deeper into the information age, the emerging technologies of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics – combined with widespread digitalisation, near-universal connectivity of people and things, big data, geolocation and much more – threaten to revolutionise… » read more
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December 10, 2018
Guest blog post by Patrick Bailey, a professional writer focusing on mental illness and addiction graduated at Central Michigan University. Retaining the unenviable ‘title’ as the world’s heaviest drinkers for more than a decade now, Europeans have recognized the health consequences of alcohol consumption to the drinker and to those around him. The European Union… » read more
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