Jun 18, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Stephan Resch Stephen Resch reflects on the fall of the wall thirty years on. In November 2019, the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, I came across a curious piece of non-news which made me pause and think. It was about the person most searched on...
Jun 16, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Malcolm Campbell When Ireland’s Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, offered his resignation to President Michael D. Higgins on 20 February, little did he realise the responsibility that lay ahead. When Ireland’s Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, offered his resignation to President...
Jun 9, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Susanna Trnka On March 18, 2020, the Czech Republic became the first country in Europe to legislate mandatory coverage of the mouth and nose in all public areas in an attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. On March 18, 2020, the Czech Republic became the first...
Jun 5, 2020 | Politics & Society, Referee
By Justin Wong Marine Le Pen has already announced her bid for the presidency in 2022. Before the National Front’s (FN) Marine Le Pen advanced to the second round of the 2017 presidential election, philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote in 2010 that she was “far-right...
Jun 2, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Geoff Kemp “I saw my father alive, dead, and buried, the threefold process that’s at once so ordinary and so extraordinary, and tragically has become more ordinary in the UK in these extraordinary times.” I made three journeys to Britain and back as...
Feb 10, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Amanda Russell Beattie, Patrycja Rozbicka, Gemma Bird & Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik Is there still a refugee crisis in Europe? The ‘Refugee Crisis’, or more appropriately, the European Humanitarian Crisis, made headlines within and beyond Europe in 2015 when...
Jun 18, 2019 | Politics & Society
By Niklas Bolin, Kajsa Falasca, Marie Grusell, Lars Nord In the wake of the European Elections in May 2019, seventy leading academics from across the European Union contributed their reflections, thoughts, and analysis to Euroflections – a free downloadable report...
Apr 11, 2019 | Politics & Society
There is a sense that we are living in extraordinary times, amidst a groundswell of populism. First came Brexit (and the ongoing confusion), followed almost immediately by Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States. In Europe there is little room for...
Jan 29, 2019 | Politics & Society
By France Grenaudier-Klijn After over two months of active protest against the French Government, what next for the Yellow Vests? Saturday 19th January 2019 was the tenth act in the ‘Yellow Vests’ drama currently playing out on the French political and social scene....
Dec 13, 2018 | Politics & Society
By France Grenaudier-Klijn For the past four weeks, the Gilets jaunes protests have dominated the French socio-political landscape and monopolised the media. But who are they exactly? For the past four weeks, the Gilets jaunes – meaning ‘yellow vests’ – protests...