06/21/2016 Brussels
Iran’s official IRNA news agency on Sunday quoted Iranian Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani as saying:
♣ Europeans and westerners who have travelled to Iran say that they feel safer…
by Donald Armbrecht*
Europe is arguably the best continent for LGBT rights today. When asked which countries were most gay-friendly, a recent survey showed that 8 out of the top ten were in Europe.…
by JAN TECHAU
Is the refugee crisis a threat to the European Union’s existence? Listening to commentators and politicians alike, this seems to be the overall consensus today. Porous borders let in too many alien subjects,…
by Karl T. Muth
Karl Muth argues that both those voting to remain and those voting to ‘Brexit’ are likely to be disappointed once in the aftermath of the referendum.
Last week, I talked more…
by Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza & Markus Heinrich
Clichés like “don’t mention the war” have given way to modern Germany becoming an unlikely moral example to the world.
For German-Turkish relations, the recent vote…
by Heather Grabbe & Stefan Lehne
The 2016 Austrian presidential election was emblematic of a rising trend in European politics: voters rejected mainstream parties in favor of outsider candidates, resulting in the first Green head of state in…
by Viktoria Jancosekova
25 years after the foundation of the Visegrad Group is a good time to evaluate its role and to take a look at its current functioning within the EU. A historic goal of…
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by Gregoriana Tudoran*
The history of how the leasing company Caterpillar Financial has succeeded in surviving the whirlpools of…
by Muddassar Ahmed
A win by the anti-EU Brexit campaign, already riddled with anti-Muslim bigotry, would not only boost but legitimate xenophobic sentiments against minorities in the U.K. and across Europe.
On June 23rd, my country will…
by JUDY DEMPSEY
In my childhood, my mother would drive up once a year to Northern Ireland. The main stretch from Dublin up to the border was a slow two-lane road. Ireland was not yet in…