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What if French Caribbeans were to Move to Hungary after Irma?

October 10, 2017

Guest post by Mahama Tawat is Research Associate at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare and Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics. One way Hurricane Irma is making waves these days in the US is through the revelation that about half the American population on the mainland does not… » read more

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blogactiv, EU borders, EU Citizens & Media, Future EU, Global Europe, identity, Languages & Culture

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A game of betrayals

July 21, 2015

From Cassius and Ephialtes of Trachis to the infamous “Percentages agreement“, and continuing to modern times the history of the people living on the European continent is littered to the brink with betrayal. It is, to put it mildly, a perfect portrayal of our apparently born inability to trust each other or work together. One needs only… » read more

Betrayal, democracy, Direct Democracy, Federal Europe, Greekexit, identity, Nations, opinion, People, Tsipras

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The toddler that is EUrope

July 16, 2015

I’ve been starring at this blank page for the past 6 months, almost on a daily basis. I’ve been meaning to write more on the federalist quest, but I’ve been turned back again and again by news reaching me on developments on the EU scene. Today, as I have been more or less removed from the… » read more

average citizen, brussels, communication, democracy, Federal Europe, federation, identity, learning, opinion, People, strategy, toddler

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Eurocentrism part I: The origins of the Western sense of superiority

April 5, 2011

Author: Christopher Houtkamp (Board-member and Webeditor European Student Think Tank) The West deems itself superior. Unfortunately that is an undeniable fact. We have democracy, rule of law, ‘Universal’ Human Rights. What’s more? Our culture is top-class and even in economic and military terms we’re still number one (though we’re on the verge of losing the… » read more

Eurocentrism, European Heritage, identity, Nationalism

USSR Reloaded?

October 1, 2009

(Third edition)    One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew Jackson     In a historic second referendum on a treaty changing the way the European Community functions (the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community (Conference of the Representatives of the Governments of the… » read more

America, balance, ballot, bully, commission, common, communist, Community, declaration, deficit, democracy, English, Eurocrat, freedom, government, identities, identity, Irish, language, Lisbon, market, National, opinion, Parliament, party, peace, power, religion, Republic, resist, Schuman, Socialist, Soviet, State, superstate, Treaty, turnout, Union, United, USSR, vote

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Questions… (1)

January 23, 2009

If you can’t answer to the next few questions, in your european vision, can be all right?… 1. You are european citizen because it needn’t cost you very much, or you pay global political and economic interests because your every need? 2. The nation… Not a highly desirable term to be conceptualised and to lives… » read more

answer, English, identity, need, question

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