Commentary

A common shield against common threats

The EU will only be able to defend and uphold the freedom and wellbeing of its citizens by building a common shield against common external threats. Division and fragmentation will weaken even the strongest among us. With the COVID-19 pandemic still taking the lives of the most vulnerable (...)

Monday 11 May 2020

Beware the historical revisionism of the national narrative

Madelaine Pitt contrasts the underlying messages of VE Day and Europe Day.

Sunday 10 May 2020

Narratives of a pandemic: what can we learn from the virus?

In difficult times, it is important to be able to report on the positive. A drastic decline in pollution can now be seen everywhere. NASA’s images are fascinating, showing a significant drop in nitrogen oxides over China. It is wonderful to see how mother nature is breathing a sigh of relief, as (...)

Sunday 10 May 2020

The Commission must bring enforcement proceedings against Germany

Much has (already) been written about the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC)’s ruling on May 5th. In assessing the European Central Bank (ECB)’s conduct during its 2015 sovereign bond-buying program (Public Sector Purchasing Program, PSPP), the Court suggested that the ECB had misapplied (...)

Thursday 7 May 2020

What will Europe look like after coronavirus?

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the extent to which our world has become an arena of shifting power relations. To avoid sinking into insignificance, the EU must position itself in crucial areas - such as the rule of law, public health, and the protection of biodiversity -, and at the same (...)

Monday 4 May 2020

France has a serious democratic deficit. This is why we should all be worried.

The self-proclaimed “country of human rights” has a big representativity problem, which has contributed to regular riots, the yellow vests and, most recently, Macron’s disastrous pension reform vote at the National Assembly. Not addressing the issue threatens to rip apart the country’s social (...)

Wednesday 18 March 2020

The Future of Europe – A Time to Reflect?

With the Conference on the Future of Europe coming up, Conor Ryan reflects on what lies ahead.

Monday 2 March 2020

Gender Pay Gap in Europe: The Situation is Still Critical

On January 13, during a plenary debate in Strasbourg, the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) exchanged their views on equal pay between men and women in Europe. And the conclusion is clear: in 2020, the situation is still critical. A female president! On January 22, Greece saw a (...)

Saturday 29 February 2020

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
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