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On this dreary Tuesday morning, November 24th, the people of Brussels are yet again waking up to a city on lockdown. The metro, the central transport system that connects the city centre to the suburbs, remains closed, as too do the schools, universities, colleges and crèches of Belgium’s capital. Parents have no other choice but […]
I will not add the French flag filter on Facebook to my profile picture. I am not putting a picture of the Eiffel tower with the hashtag #prayforparis. I will not write condolensces to the victims, will not endorse the public outrage with the events that took place in Paris. Before you condemn me about […]
by Louise Bicknese A safe and almost infallible way of banking and storing data: sounds great, doesn’t it? As it turns out, this kind of technology may be closer than we think. Blockchain, the technology behind the online currency ‘bitcoin’, is extremely hard to cheat. The numerous applications are potentially revolutionary; even chief economist Andrew […]
by Hoai Tram Nguyen “What time is it now?” was the most frequently asked question in Turkey on the 25th of October 2015. Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to delay the time change to winter time due to the upcoming national elections on Sunday, the 1st of November. Appointments were missed, flights were delayed, […]
by Filip Rambousek On the 30th of October, the EU has gone through with its promise to temporarily lift sanctions against Belarus. More specifically, the EU will for four months raise its travel ban on 170 individuals, as well as its asset freeze of three entities in Belarus. The promise to raise these sanctions was […]
by Matthias Hasler Security and privacy – never have we been made more aware of the alleged conflict between these two concepts than nowadays. The digital age and the ongoing shift of social activity from the real, tangible to the virtual level have catered for a situation where the personal freedom of privacy is more […]
by João Albuquerque In a period of great economic depression the Portuguese people were called upon to cast their vote on what was expected to be another bi-polarized race between the Socialist Party (PS) and the right wing coalition that led the government over the last four years. The result, however, came as a surprise […]
by Ivan Šuklev July 25th, 2015. Five thousand refugees are desperately trying to enter the city of Gevgelija, a city that lies on the border of Greece and Macedonia. Their goal is to continue their long journey from the hells of Syria to their final destination, the paradise of Germany and Western Europe. On their […]
by Arne Langlet As it becomes ever more apparent that the current handlings of the crisis is unsustainable, policy makers are by now finally agreeing that is it the so called “root-causes” of the crisis that be tackled to in order to control and stop the flow. If the EU wants to succeed in fighting […]
by Arne Langlet While the article on “Populism in Europe” (published on this website some days ago) discusses in a useful way some features of the rise of new parties in Europe, it falls victim to a dangerous fallacy. It departs from the flawed (but very mainstream) assumption that new parties in Europe can and […]
