Opinion

Growing up in 2000s Serbia

Throughout my childhood international media traditionally branded my country as the home of murderers, while the national one either ignored the Yugoslavian War or blamed it on third parties. It was therefore almost inevitable that I grew up surrounded by questions regarding my identity. What (...)

Saturday 8 February 2020

Faced with Brexit, the EU must not overplay its sentimentalism

To this day, I still remember waking up on June 24th, 2016. A glance at my phone, my father’s WhatsApp reading that ‘Leave had won’, and a beaming Nigel Farage celebrating ‘Independence Day’. Surely this was just a nightmare. Surely David Cameron would issue a statement saying that it had all been a (...)

Thursday 30 January 2020

What us Canadians know about Brexit and what this says about how “global citizens” consume news

Canadian citizen Aleen Leigh Stanton reveals what her compatriots know about Brexit - and how this reflects on our news habits as supposedly global citizens.

Monday 23 December 2019

Malta’s Student Revolution

Nobody expected Malta to reach this situation. Allegations of gross corruption in the Muscat government were widely known to the Maltese public. The country’s major parties had clased heaving as a result of the Panama Papers, which had left them badly touched. But the brutal assassination of (...)

Wednesday 4 December 2019

COP25: How Did We Learn to Love the Status Quo?

A confession: I am a dedicated environmentalist, and I am not looking forward to the COP25 conference. As a matter of fact, I do not quite see the point of it. Let me explain. Three years ago, I watched the 31st installment in Toho Studios’s Godzilla film franchise, Shin Godzilla (marketed (...)

Monday 2 December 2019

Female journalists face violent abuse online. Journalism and democracy are losing out

Madelaine Pitt explores how the Internet has magnified gender inequalities in journalism following a World Forum for Democracy conference on this topic.

Friday 15 November 2019

Lesson from the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact: Strong institutions are vital for small countries

23 August is a historic date for the Baltic states and for Eastern Europe as a whole. 80 years ago today, the Soviet and German foreign ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop made a secret pact to divide Europe between the two dictatorships. Exactly five decades later, two million people in the three Baltic states occupied by the Soviet Union would form a human chain to demand freedom.

Friday 23 August 2019

Europe must readopt the spirit of CERN – for the sake of science, prosperity and European values

As Europe lay in ruins at the end of World War II, one of the countless victims of the war and its preceding years was European science. Prior to the war, Europe was home to many of the world’s most brilliant scientific minds. Then, many scientists of Jewish origin (like Albert Einstein, among (...)

Thursday 22 August 2019

European democracy is achieved through transnational parties, not transnational lists

‘Transnational lists’ in European elections would mean creating a Europe-wide constituency to give citizens a chance to vote for common candidates, in addition to national ones. It is the most oft-discussed idea for making European elections ‘more European’. However, Louis Drounau, President of (...)

Thursday 15 August 2019

As von der Leyen builds her Commission, the divided European Parliament can be an opportunity

Summertime doesn’t mean holidays for everyone. Ursula Von der Leyen, President-elect of the European Commission, is travelling around EU capitals in an effort to uphold her first promise: gender balance among the Commissioners. After she has assembled the 27-piece puzzle, the European (...)

Friday 9 August 2019

Ursula von der Leyen: A victory for compromise and rationality

On Tuesday, Ursula von der Leyen was elected as the next European Commission President without having first been nominated as a lead candidate of a party. Despite this, the Parliament made a good choice in electing her. Instead of paralysing the institutions with a months-long quarrel, it (...)

Friday 19 July 2019

The Parliament that didn’t want to stand for democracy

The European Parliament’s previous term was like a sweet, long night, and the Spitzenkandidaten, as every dream, ended with the rising sun. A sun that reveals with its bright light the opaque darkness of the backroom deals that triumphantly returned to the EU.

Wednesday 17 July 2019
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