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November 16, 2011
I don’t know about you, but I have tried to find out exactly what is in the bailout package offered to Greece by the European partners, but I could not find much. Banks are mentioned in all the newspapers articles, sometimes because they need to be shored up, sometimes because they will take a haircut.… » read more
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November 15, 2011
Author: Greet Jans Due to the global economical crisis the youth unemployment rate in Europe over the last years peeks historically high. Special care is taken of the youth unemployment rate, which is generally higher. In 2010, with the rate for the EU at 20.9 %, more than one on five young Europeans was not… » read more
November 14, 2011
Montenegrin students held several protests during the course of last few months. In the beggining, protests were oriented toward improvement of conditions related to studying. Latest protest was organized for the first time by students of Political Sciences Faculty in capital Podgorica. But, their messages on transparents were broader and stronger: We don’t want to… » read more
Inequality is the inherent cause of the problem in Europe which we now call “sovereign debt crisis”. It is more than urgent to re-establish social justice. Re-establishing social justice means re-orienting our economic policies in the sense that these policies serve the people and not the opposite in which the people serve the economy. Such… » read more
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November 8, 2011
Tweet The last issue of the European Journal of Migration and Law (vol. 13, issue 3, 2011) challenges several arguments about irregular migration which are often spread by policy-makers and media. As pointed out in the introduction (F. Düvell, The Pathways in and out of Irregular Migration in the EU: A Comparative Analysis), four beliefs… » read more
October 17, 2011
The manifesto of the Indignados movement – those from Spain, adopted by the rest of Europe – is definitely worth reading. We can read there about equality, solidarity, the right to housing, employment, health care. Next, more fundamental, the Indignados demand political participation. So what happened that on the 15th of May in Madrid, the… » read more
The 24-year-old Natasa Stojanoska from Skopje, an English language and literature graduate, tells her experience regarding EVS, after she has spent three months in Estonia, Tallinn. This is her personal view on EVS and her host country… …I never really felt alone. At the time there was a fellow Macedonian volunteer who introduced me into… » read more
October 5, 2011
Yesterday I attended a joint press conference in the European Parliament hosted by Gianni Pitella MEP and Anna Maria Darmanin. Both are Vice-Presidents – one of the Parliament and the other of the Economic and Social Committee. They were together to launch a joint tour of universities across the continent. The reason? To find out… » read more
September 25, 2011
The news that Steven Jobs has left Apple due to illness has brought to mind another outstanding American entrepreneur I have actually met in Sydney in 1985, the one and only Ben Rosen. At the time, I was a very young marketing and sales consultant at ComputerLand, promoting the products of a PC industry still… » read more
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September 23, 2011
The euro cannot possibly be a dilemma for Greece or for the other Europeans. The costs of losing the euro are many times more than the benefits of living without it.
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September 22, 2011
The insanity of the “troika” (EU-IMF-ECB) to demand more austerity, more of the drug that utterly failed to contain the spiraling depression in Greece, meets the approval of the Greek government that seems to be determined to take whatever measures necessary to appease the troika’s officials and receive the next tranche of loans that will… » read more
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September 12, 2011
9/11 changed the world. This is what most of the comments made this week-end stipulate. The world seems to have shrunk in many ways in the last decade. It goes without saying that we still suffer the consequences: thousands of innocent people killed at 9/11, the wars in Iraq, in Afghanistan, the wave of violence… » read more
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September 11, 2011
France’s economy is stalled. Europe’s second largest economy had zero growth in the second quarter. With a sluggish economy the government reduced its 2011-growth forecast to an anemic but nonetheless still unlikely to be achieved 1.75%. Growth matters enormously. Growing the pie means life isn’t a zero-sum game. It improves people’s standard of living, and… » read more
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September 6, 2011
L’Affaire DSK is now finished. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance requested that the rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn be dropped, and a New York judge did just that. Now it’s time for DSK to return to France and run for President. Well, maybe not literally..
August 10, 2011
Scenes from London. Image Source: Global Public Square – CNN Violence erupted in London and some other cities across the UK. Young men and women from poor neighborhoods went out on the streets looting shops, setting buildings ablaze and fighting the police. The events have been characterized as “nothing more than wanton criminality”. Is this… » read more
August 9, 2011
The world’s largest economy remains mired in the deepest recession since the Great Depression. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported the US economy grew at an anemic 1.3% in the second-quarter growth and revised first-quarter growth downward to a paltry .4%. The American economic malaise is a drag on and danger to Europe and indeed… » read more
The biggest socio-economic problem North Africa will face in the coming 20 years is to put its millions of young people to work. Egypt alone will need to absorb one million youngsters newly arriving annually at labour market, in addition to several million chronically unemployed. To that end it will have to engage in massive… » read more
July 7, 2011
What will be the future of Schengen? Image source: Europe of Human Rights On July 4 the Danish authorities decided to reintroduce customs controls. A decision which is directly against the fundamental principles of the Schengen Agreement, that provide for free movement among all states that signed the agreement. Before labeling Denmark as the “black… » read more
