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Did Italy bet on the wrong horse?

12/03/2018 Inside Europe

[authorbox authorid="40" title="The Author"] T he European Union has experienced a wave of elections in the last year. General elections were scattered in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Serbia, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and, finally, Italy.…

Is terrorism really rational?

12/03/2018 Inside Europe

Yvonnemarie Antonoglou

[authorbox authorid="73" title="The Author"] T he study of terrorism has always been a complex, challenging and multifarious task. Though Terrorism Studies were largely part of a niche epistemic community –at least for the first part…

Influential Czech MEP shares his take on the Current EU-Russia Relations

07/03/2018 Inside Europe

Jiri Mastalka

[authorbox authorid="81" title="The Author"] [toggler title="DISCLAIMER" ]All opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe.[/toggler] C urrent relations between the EU and Russia have been frozen for a long time. Some…

Can the European Union be an honest broker for Israel?

02/03/2018 Inside Europe

Xavier Ruiz Trullols

[authorbox authorid="79" title="The Author"] [toggler title="DISCLAIMER" ]All opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe.[/toggler] T he Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the EU’s major concerns since the seventies and…

Keep Calm and Keep Negotiating

02/03/2018 Inside Europe

Julien Hoez

[authorbox authorid="56" title="The Author"] M ichel Barnier today highlighted the need to “pick up the pace” in the Brexit negotiations, as he presented the EU draft Withdrawal Agreement to the public, prior to presenting it…

War on separatist ideology continues in Spain

01/03/2018 Inside Europe

Arnau Perello

[authorbox authorid="76" title="The Author"] I n a determined attempt to maintain the unity of the Kingdom, not altered since 1976, Spanish Government and High Courts continue to explore new mechanisms to fight Catalan separatist ideology.…

EU-Azerbaijan Relations Set for Bright Future

26/02/2018 Inside Europe

Ilgar Gurbanov

[authorbox authorid="57" title="The Author"] [toggler title="DISCLAIMER" ]This article originally was published by the Emerging Europe[/toggler] T here has been an increase in the volume of dialogue between the EU and Azerbaijan of late, notably following the…

What is the Future of European Democracy?

26/02/2018 Inside Europe

Julien Hoez

[authorbox authorid="56" title="Th Author"] T he institutions of the European Union have been used as the scapegoat of many national failings, with organizations such as the Parliament being derided for overriding national sovereignty, being ignorant…

What Europe Can learn from America’s Immigration System

23/02/2018 Inside Europe

Joseph Hammond

[authorbox authorid="47" title="The Author"] [toggler title="DISCLAIMER" ]All opinions in this column reflect view of the autor(s), not of Vocal Europe.[/toggler] M igration—mass movements of the desperate and the dispossessed from north and central Africa, from Syria-Iraq’s…

French politician Laurent Wauquiez is a rushed version of Donald Trump

23/02/2018 Inside Europe

Richard Senneville

[authorbox authorid="65" title="The Author"] A merican journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken said: "The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he thinks to be idiots". Since the election…