Opinion

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.

lundi 23 décembre 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 (...)

mercredi 4 décembre 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 (...)

lundi 2 décembre 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.

vendredi 15 novembre 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.

vendredi 23 août 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 (...)

jeudi 22 août 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 (...)

jeudi 15 août 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 (...)

vendredi 9 août 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 (...)

vendredi 19 juillet 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.

mercredi 17 juillet 2019

The Union’s Ouroboros

Shots fired. The East-West divide is back, alive and kicking. On 5 July, newly elected Conservative MEP and former Romanian President – Traian Basescu – accused Western European states of completely isolating Eastern Europe, first around the Eurozone, and now by not nominating anyone for a top (...)

lundi 8 juillet 2019

EU budget : The case for translating scientific projects into business opportunities

The EU is famous for its funding for science and research, boosting Europe’s competitiveness. To complete the puzzle, Andrew Howe argues that more needs to be done to combine scientific innovation and bring these ideas into the real world for sustainable growth. An essay arguing for EU funds (...)

jeudi 6 juin 2019
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