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Thoughts of a changing Reality - Are we destined to become savages?

There was a time, long gone, when war gave the impression of being a thing of the past. A mere memory of what should not repeat itself, a series of events that only persisted in regions outside the “civilised West”. It was a time when military spending was being reduced because diplomacy (…)

Sunday 5 May 2024

Private Universities Law: A greek game of sophists and pokemons

On March 8th, 2024, the Greek Parliament voted on a law on private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (EPP) praised this legislative development as a milestone, stating, “On the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the Republic, this breakthrough turns (…)

Wednesday 3 April 2024

Joint Statement: We cannot let war become the new normal

After two years of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, we, JEF, NYCU, EDS, YEPP, YES, LYMEC, YDE, IFLRY, FYEG, EFAY, have one message: Don’t let war be our future! On the 24th of February 2022, Europeans woke up to a very different world as Russian president Vladimir Putin undid decades (…)

Saturday 24 February 2024

To ban or not to ban? Protecting our Democracies intelligently

Imagine this scenario: On the morning of October 26th, 2025, winds of political change began sweeping through Germany, marking the onset of profound and deep societal changes. The results of the federal elections exposed a seismic shift within the German society, as the extreme right-wing (…)

Monday 29 January 2024

On the tragedies we face

I often feel like I’m in constant mourning. Our tiny bodies were not meant to take in as much information as flows today through the internet and social media. And yet, we might feel, especially those of us who are politically active, as if we are missing out on some crucial information if we (…)

Friday 22 December 2023

‘We deserve to know’: UK Ministers say ‘no’ to a public inquiry into the impact of Brexit

‘The impact that leaving the EU has had on the UK needs to become common knowledge…We deserve to know’. On the 24th of April, Westminster held a debate on the impact of Brexit. The leader of the debate was Martyn Day, Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish National Party (SNP), one of the (…)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

Democracy, if we can keep it - the situation in Greece

Greece is set to hold its general elections in May 2023. Voters are going to the ballot boxes under the shadow of a catastrophic rail crash (Feb. 28) where two trains collided and 57 people died. The majority of the victims were young people, aged 18-20. Mass protests erupted all around the (…)

Sunday 26 March 2023

Opposing chains of tyranny with a chain of solidarity, hope and democracy

TNF supports JEF-Europe’s campaign #DemocracyUnderPressure that this year will take place from the 18th to the 25th of March. 25 March is full of symbols for JEF. The unofficial Freedom day in Belarus celebrated every year by the democratic opposition marks the last day of our Democracy under (…)

Saturday 25 March 2023

Tatsiana Khomich, sister of Maria Kalesnikava: “Maria tore up her passport, she refused to be expelled from Belarus“

TNF supports JEF-Europe’s campaign #DemocracyUnderPressure that this year will take place from the 18th to the 25th of March. Tatsiana Khomich is the sister of Maria Kalesnikava, Belarusian political leader who took part in the 2020 presidential campaign and the subsequent demonstrations that (…)

Saturday 25 March 2023

Data journalism: freedom of press in Europe, according to RSF

TNF supports JEF-Europe’s campaign #DemocracyUnderPressure that this year will take place from the 18th to the 25th of March. As we did for the 2022 edition of the Democracy Under Pressure campaign, we would like to couple what we described during this week with what can be seen through (…)

Friday 24 March 2023

Domani journalist Francesca de Benedetti: “for the EU to enjoy the trust of its citizens, it needs to play a pioneering role on the democratic front”

TNF supports JEF-Europe’s campaign #DemocracyUnderPressure that this year will take place from the 18th to the 25th of March. Jacopo Barbati - TNF (JB): I would like to thank, on behalf of The New Federalist, Francesca De Benedetti, journalist at Domani, for agreeing to give us this (…)

Wednesday 22 March 2023

Israeli Democracy is Under Existential Pressure

TNF supports JEF-Europe’s campaign #DemocracyUnderPressure that this year will take place from the 18th to the 25th of March. Israel may be a Middle Eastern country, but around 50 percent of its population is of European descent, mainly Jewish people who escaped prosecution in Europe. (…)

Monday 20 March 2023
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